How to use the Persuasive essay planner template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Persuasive essay planner template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Persuasive essay planner”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Fill the claim first and test it: could someone disagree? Each reason needs one piece of evidence before you start the draft.”
Fill in each part
- Hook A question, fact or scene that makes the reader care.
- My claim What you want the reader to believe, in one sentence.
- Audience Who are you persuading, and what do they care about?
- Reason 1 and evidence Your strongest reason, with proof.
- Reason 2 and evidence A second reason, with proof.
- Reason 3 and evidence A third reason, with proof.
- The other side The best argument against you, and your answer.
- Closing Return to the hook and say what you want to happen next.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Persuasive essay planner board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

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