Persuade Us Protect Our Garden

A real audience, a real ask, a real decision at the end.

We run this with an actual proposal going to whoever runs the site, and the children know it. Persuasive writing with a genuine audience is a different task from persuasive writing as an exercise, and the difference shows in the first paragraph.

The ask has to be specific and achievable. Leave this corner unmown. Put a sign here. Not save the environment.

The page has the argument frame, an evidence box that requires them to use their own tally or transect data, and a counterargument box. The counterargument box is the hard one and it is what separates persuasion from complaining.