Achebe+vs+Conrad



Throughout your high school career, teachers have asked you to write persuasive essays. You have been taught the structure, need for support, and importance is sticking to your main idea. All of these skills were taught to prepare you for the occasional times in our life when writing defines who we are and what we stand for.

In Achebe's famous essay "An Image of Africa" he writes an outstanding example of persuasion that includes a number of really smart techniques. After reading his essay/speech, dissect his essay and identify which component (part) of his essay you admire and would like to mimic in your own writing. Explain why this section of the essay works so well and discuss how you plan to practice this in your own writing.

Consider: How he introduces his thesis How he predicts the reader's questions How he uses Conrad's words to support his own argument How his conclusion serves a bigger purpose Soooo many others. I'd like to see what you can narrow in on here.

Read "An Image of Africa"

http://kirbyk.net/hod/image.of.africa.html