Editorial

Leader/Editorial

-informative
-persuasive

Should be written in the following format:

-Introduction
-Key point
-key point
-key point
-concession- the act of giving or conceding (giving in to an argument that the opposing side might make)
-final key point, smacking down concession
- conclusion

If you will write an editorial like in the new york times you have to make sure that you have: a hook, drop the lead and only then a hard introduction.
It is suggested to make a persuasive editorial (since it would be easier for us).

However every editorial still has to be speaking to the audience. Every newspaper knows what their audience is and hence every editorial ("editors opinion")still appeals to them. Occasionally they will write an editorial to challenge their audience, however most will still speak to them.

Write your editorial on a current issue(get a paper that you can pull a newspaper out of) e.g. Climate change, paris conference, syria, migrant/refugee crisis, paris + brussels attacks,(one can go back to discussing whether this is a migration or a refugee crisis) presidential election   (US), Brexit (reasons for and against), the role of an independent supreme court in a free society.

You must always have the language and the tone of the newspaper you are writing to.