persuade cousin to apply for a job in my town

Answer 1

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/659/01/
from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/index.html

http://www.powa.org/
What you want is in the Argumentative Essays section.

Persuasive writing and argumentative writing are about the same. That's why you often see one or the other on some websites, and on other websites you'll see both.

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