Persuasive Writing - Part 1

7 Março 2017, 10:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

The students finished presenting their Descriptive Writing Text Analyses.

We then went on to begin Persuasive Writing.

We came to the conclusion that whenever someone writes or speaks a persuasive texto, they are trying to get someone to do something.

We then looked at 20 techniques (among others!) that can be used when writing or speaking to convince someone to do something:

1.Personal Pronouns

2.Cause and effect

3.Verb tenses

4.Repetition

5.Alliteration

6.The Power of Three

7.Emotive language

8.Facts and statistics

9.Hyperbole

10.Exaggeration

11.Technical Language

12.Rhetorical Questions

13.Dare the reader to disagree

14.Powerful verbs and strong adjectives

15.Listing.

16.Address objections.

17.Go tribal.

18.Story telling/anecdotes

19.Humour.

20.Reasons why.

We then watched/read extracts from Wînston Churchill's We Shall Fight them on the Beaches. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4FdMTdR40w

Students then got into pairs to ascertain which of the above techniques were used in the writing of this speech.  Students to feedback to the teacher next class.