Tips and Tricks
Persuasive Texts are often hard to write and hard to understand. Here are some tips and tricks to help you along you way to an excellent persuasive text.
- Be emotive
- Sound authorative
- Before you start brainstorm some problems
- Structure your body paragraphs
- Evidence is support for your claim, and the best way to make your argument persuasive is to find evidence and present it in appropriate ways.
- Connect your evidence to the arguments
- Be clear in what you are claiming
- Tell the reader which claims are based on facts and which on values
- Provide good evidence in support of your claim
- If a connection between the evidence and the claim is not obvious, tell the reader the connection
- Discuss the opposing arguments and either provide a rebuttal or concession, whichever is appropriate given your evidence
- Distinguish facts from informed opinion
- Use statistics carefully
- Stay focused on your point of view throughout the essay
- Focus on logical arguments
- Don't lapse into summary in the development-wait for the conclusion
- Be emotive
- Sound authorative
- Before you start brainstorm some problems
- Structure your body paragraphs
- Evidence is support for your claim, and the best way to make your argument persuasive is to find evidence and present it in appropriate ways.
- Connect your evidence to the arguments
- Be clear in what you are claiming
- Tell the reader which claims are based on facts and which on values
- Provide good evidence in support of your claim
- If a connection between the evidence and the claim is not obvious, tell the reader the connection
- Discuss the opposing arguments and either provide a rebuttal or concession, whichever is appropriate given your evidence
- Distinguish facts from informed opinion
- Use statistics carefully
- Stay focused on your point of view throughout the essay
- Focus on logical arguments
- Don't lapse into summary in the development-wait for the conclusion