Gay Marriage

by Lauri S. Friedman

Learning the fundamental principles of essay writing is becoming an ever more important skill for students. In 2005 the SAT gave its stamp to this initiative by adding an essay requirement to the popular college entrance exam. Each book in Greenhaven Press's Writing the Critical Essay: An Opposing Viewpoints Guide includes everything necessary to help students research, outline, draft, edit, and ultimately write successful essays across the curriculum.

Using the patented Opposing Viewpoints format, this book focuses on writing a persuasive essay. Persuasion is a frequently used essay technique for writing informational, opinionated, and how-to essays. Readers will find useful information to write a successful persuasive essay, including thesis statements, introductions, and conclusions. In addition, readers will find information to compile a "source cited" list using MLA style.

128 pages, Library Binding

First published September 16, 2005

About the author

Lauri S. Friedman is the founder of LSF Editorial, a writing, editing, ghostwriting, and series packaging outfit that produces non-fiction writing projects.

Reviews

[Duane]

This is a great Young Adult/Adult resource book no matter what side of the debate you're on when it comes to Gay Marriage. With each chapter being written by a author who has a specific viewpoint on the different aspects of gay marriage, it gives the reader a great opportunity to focus on their arguments for/against the issues. A nice addition are the numerous debate questions the book sprinkles throughout. They're great for starting interesting conversations on the many various ideas about the topic. It's nice that this book fairly includes resources for both for/against institutions so they can investigate more on their own. A great resource for any library's collection.

[Ms W]

AW: An "Opposing Viewpoints" volume published in 2006, before gay marriage was legalized in 2015. I'm so interested to read how their recent updated volume changes, we'll be adding it to our collection very soon.