Twisting Arms: Teaching Students How to Write to Persuade

Twisting Arms is a practical, engaging book of activities that will help your students learn to write much more effectively. Take your students step by step through the process of writing a persuasive paper, using the easy-to-use, easy-to-understand lessons in Twisting Arms.

Twisting Arms is an excellent source for teaching middle school students to write a thesis statement

A few of the topics included:

Fact vs. opinion

Avoiding wishy-washy terms

Aristotle's three modes of persuasion

Plagiarism

Using transition words

Both traditional and new propaganda techniques

Writing and supporting a thesis statement

Ways to provide evidence