Persuasive Writing

Step 1

You have taken the first step and decided what form of writing you wish to create. We will look at starting a piece of writing that will catch the reader’s attention using Speech, a Question, Verbs (Action words) or Onomatopoeia.

Remember writing that is Persuasive includes: Reviews and Debates.

They are based on a personal opinion using information from known or researched facts or from the reviewed topic.

Language Features useful for Persuasive Writing

There are three features I find useful for creating persuasive text, they are stating the issue, dialogue and exaggeration, be careful you don't want to over exaggerate and make is sound unbelievable .

Introducing Exaggeration

Exaggeration can be used to help get you point of view across.

MIT Exaggeration 2020