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Contributor: Melissa Kowalski. Lesson ID: 12866
"Brainstorming" does not imply that you have water on the brain; it means thinking hard and letting your ideas about a topic flow in your mind and on paper. This is a very vital step in good writing!
What defines a leader? A simple question with profound implications for your essay!
If you answered the question above, then you are already starting the brainstorming and prewriting for your essay!
In this series, Macbeth Persuasive Essay, you will be writing a multi-page persuasive essay incorporating research to make an argument for the most important trait a leader must have. However, before you start drafting the paper or even thinking about the structure of the essay, you'll do some groundwork in research and prewriting to develop your ideas and supporting evidence and organize your information.
Your Macbeth persuasive essay must include the following components:
While there is an order to writing, it isn't always a linear process, which means that sometimes you have to go back and change an idea or topic, or find new evidence as you progress through the creation of an essay.
Once you have chosen the leadership quality that is the most convincing to you, move on to the Got It? section, where you will start to develop evidence from the primary text that you will be using for your argument: Macbeth.