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IGCSE Language - Persuasive Writing

The texts listed below are texts suitable for analysis for your English Language Coursework. The texts are grouped by genre.

Choose one of these texts (or another of your own choice) and write a response. Keep your first draft for your coursework folder

Speeches

MLK: "I Have a Dream" FDR: Pearl Harbor Address Barbara Jordan: 1976 DNC
Reagan: Shuttle Challenger RFK: MLK Assassination William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Acceptance Address
Malcolm X: Ballot- Bullet MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country The lady's not for turning
JFK: Inaugural Address Elie Wiesel: Perils of Indifference Guardian Political Speeches

Magazine and Newspaper articles

Polly Toynbee, Running Scared: Huntingdon Life Sciences has been abandoned by cowards who fear an animal rights terror campaign Paul Flynn, Stop laughing: The rise of the term chav reflects spiteful middle-class snobbery

Lexical sets from the Chav article

Raekha Prasad, Toddlers behind the razor wire: Children are the innocent victims of Britain's hardline asylum policy Sarah Boseley, Reggae stars 'fuel spread of HIV' Homophobic lyrics prevent people from coming forward for tests, says minister
 P.J. O'Rourke,  A Cool and Logical Analysis
of the Bicycle Menace And an Examination of the Actions Necessary to License, Regulate,or Abolish Entirely This Dreadful Peril on our Roads		 I hate England by AA Gill
Why we should go to war Julie Burchill WIN THE DRUGS WAR BY LEGALISING THEM
ISLAM IS OFFENDED .. WELL, SO ARE WE Today's ultimate feminists are the chicks in crop tops
Are the McCanns playing it right? The 15 ways in which too much TV wrecks your child's health

Analysis of the 15 claims + tasks
War on thuggery needs fear factor - Tony Parsons