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Persuasive Writing

Persuasive Writing. Higher Writing Folio. Learning Intention. Think about how to structure your essay to effectively persuade your audience. Gain some useful tips on how to structure your essay. Use the model essays from yesterday to help you with your own structure. Structuring your Essay.

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Persuasive Writing

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  1. Persuasive Writing Higher Writing Folio

  2. Learning Intention • Think about how to structure your essay to effectively persuade your audience. • Gain some useful tips on how to structure your essay. • Use the model essays from yesterday to help you with your own structure.

  3. Structuring your Essay • Introduction • Main body • Conclusion

  4. Introduction Your introduction should have a hard-hitting opening line, and include ‘grabbers’. For example: • Quote: ‘Sue Rodrigues asks ‘Whose body is this? Who owns my life?’ • Definition: ‘Euthanasia is the act of killing someone to relieve pain and suffering.’ • Fact: ‘On February 12,1994, Sue Rodrigues defied Canadian law and, with the help of an unidentified physician, ended her life.’

  5. Main Body • Clear paragraphs • Present a new point which presents your overarching argument in each paragraph • Provide evidence throughout

  6. Evidence • Statistics • Expert Opinion • Examples *At least twp types are used throughout the main body.

  7. Conclusion • Summarise stances and reinforce strength of ideas present • Make use of ‘clinchers’ • Connect with introduction • ‘The response to both of Sue’s questions is the same; she does!’ • Rhetorical questions • ‘Should Euthanasia be legalised? Without a doubt!’ • Offering a suggestion • ‘Euthanasia should be a choice in the same way that abortion is a choice, and for the same reason. The body belongs to the individual, not to the state.’

  8. Last Line Should be: • MEMORABLE • PUNCHY • AN ‘APPLAUSE CUE’

  9. Over to you. . . You will now be given some time to plan out your essay and identify your key points/arguments. Try to incorporate as much evidence as you can and remember to use a range of persuasive devices.

  10. Some planning ideas… • Mind map • Spider diagram • Tables • Paragraph plan

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