Writing to Persuade, Argue, Advise Helper Sheet

1. Writing to Advise Tips/Essentials • Write to audience and task • Engages the reader • Structure is important • Use the arguments against you to your advantage. • Be clear about WHAT you think should happen and say WHY. • Alternate between your arguments and those of the opposite side. • Seeks to influence • You're expected to take account of opposing views and find ways to counter and overcome these, mostly through the use of well-reasoned points. • You need to show you have recognised that other equally valid views exist on the subject. • Varies sentence type and beginnings for purpose • Detailed/developed points • SPAG Writing to Persuade, Argue, Advise Helper Sheet • Writing to Persuade Tips/Essentials • Write to task and audience • Involve your readers by asking rhetorical questions and other persuasive techniques. • Is ordered/structured • Gives reason • Use facts and figures, real life examples. • Offer your own opinions with details to support your ideas. • Appeal to emotions and morality • Seeks to influence—you want the person to accept your opinion—more one-sided than an argument • Based on personal conviction that your way of thinking is the right way • Do mention opposing argument • Can afford to be one-sided and personal, passionate, emotional • Reliant on rhetorical language and devices • Use the emotional anecdote • Forge common ground • Use effective and persuasive structure built up through several clear topic paragraphs • Use discourse markers (i.e. 'argument sign-posts' such as, for a start..., on the other hand..., therefore..., to continue..., as you can see..., however..., but..., to conclude) • Appeal to reason, character, emotion • Varies sentence type and beginnings for purpose • SPAG • Writing to Argue Tips/Essentials • Write to task and audience • Engages the reader • Is ordered/structured • Plan beforehand—five areas for advise • Give precise details in your advice • Detailed reasoning should support your advice • Varies sentence type and beginnings for purpose • SPAG

2. Writing to Argue, Persuade, Advise • Text Types that you May Have to Write • Formal letter (handwritten) - general and to an editor • Informal letter • Magazine article (columns, headline, strapline) • Broadsheet newspaper article - report and editorial (columns, headline, strapline etc.) • Tabloid article (columns, sensationalist headline) • Leaflet (breakdown of information into bite size chunks) • Speech Ways to Engage/Narrative Hook • Varied sentence Types/Beginning • Flare (mostly describe)—rhetorical question, command, imagery, statement, shocking fact/statistic, rhetorical technique, etc. • And more—it must ‘captures the attention of the reader’ AND be specific to audience and purpose