wait can i ask what school u go to (i understand that that's lowk personal info though so don't worry about it if u don't want to)
also - some exemplar discursives from a good school (meriden): (though it's for advanced)
My teacher never specified if we needed to have a bunch of research... But a teacher from a good school posted these as examples of good discursives, so now I'm not sure what the requirement would be for discursives. I definitely do not have time to research a bunch of different topics to keep...
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but what my tutoring place i used to go to said about discursives:
- tone can be more informal or formal - read some prescribed discursive texts if u need to get the hang of the tone
- start with anecdote, have some sort of motif or symbol or metaphor in there
- use that to launch ur discussion - (take some facts or historical things or philosophical ramblings or modern issues or whatever to talk about)
- come back to anecdote or motif or metaphor through a different lens as a result of those musings (possibly through continuing the anecdote)
