The main purpose of a persuasive essay assignment is to
a. find out if the author can regurgitate the phrases and readings from class.
b. find out if the author can summarize the overall theme from class discussions and readings.
c. find out if the author can take from class materials and generate an original thought on a topic.

Hi there, I think the answer is b. Pesusaive essays are what makes a reader see the authors point of view and the author hopes the reader will be on their side by the end. For an example, I think im old enough to walk home from school. The author pin points or generates ideas like its a good way to get exericse. It saves money on gas and helps not polute gases in the air decreases the globbal warming on our planet.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

write a five paragraph essay, you were taught to have three body paragraphs. a university essay is more flexible than that, depending on its length and on what it is trying to say. a short university essay may have three body paragraphs, but it may have more.