Pre-writing for Editorial

1. What is a problem/issue that our entire student body (our school, community, country, etc.) faces today?

The unhealthiness of school lunches/nutrition provided by the schools.

2. What is your view/position on the problem or situation?

It needs to be improved and made more healthy to benefit the both the students' mental and physical health.

3. What would you like to achieve with your editorial? (What is the desired result?)

The possibilty of school lunch options changing to become more healthy.

4. How will you persuade your audience to adopt your viewpoint as theirs? List at least 4 persuasive points.

- Provide the reader with a student's perspective.

- Give outcomes of changing lunches to a healthier option.

- Give facts as to why I believe that lunches need to be changed.

- Provide the reader with possible ways to go about changing the food program.

5. How will you motivate your readership to action in your conclusion?

By providing sheer and honest numbers and opinions on why school lunches need to be changed, backed up by hard facts.

6. How will your editorial serve a public purpose?

In making my opinion known to the public it will keep the word circulating that it's not just the faculty's opinion that school lunches need to be changed, it's the students' as well.