This document provides guidance on writing opinion essays that discuss advantages and disadvantages or arguments for and against a topic. It recommends including an introduction, main body paragraphs with one main idea each and justified arguments, and a closing paragraph. Writers should maintain a balanced perspective without bias, and can conclude by restating the different opinions or stating their own view.

1. Opinion, for and against,
advantages and disadvantages
advantages and disadvantages
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2. All these texts share this:
Introduction
Structure main body
closing paragraph

3. Points to consider
✤ Do not use informal language or contractions
✤ Begin each paragraph with a topic sentence
✤ Justify your arguments giving examples
✤ Mention just one idea in each paragraph
✤ Write a balanced essay
✤ Use linking words, discourse markers, specific vocabulary, synonyms, etc.

4. Techniques for beginnings and
endings
✤ Refer to a situation
✤ Address the reader
✤ Start or end with a quotation
✤ give the reader something to consider at the end

5. Advantages / for and against
✤ Don’t give your opinion within the text, but at the end, in the closing
paragraph
✤ Mention the arguments for/against or the advantages/disadvantages in a
balanced way, don’t show a biased point of view.
✤ You can end them giving a balanced conclusion taking into account all the
points mentioned, or just giving your opinion

6. Opinion
✤ State your opinion clearly
✤ Mention other opinions similar and different from yours

7. Opinion
✤ State your opinion clearly
✤ Mention other opinions similar and different from yours