Persuasive Writing
The purpose of persuasive writing is to convince the audience to think as the writer does about a topic or issue. The author needs to have a number of powerful arguments, with facts to support them, all written in an organized fashion.
Format of a Persuasive Writing Piece
Introduction Paragraph- In this paragraph you introduce the issue to be considered.
Body of the Piece- Each paragraph of the body should be a main argument that supports what you are trying to persuade the reader to believe. The paragraphs should consist of your arguments, and the facts that you have to back up that argument.
Conclusion- In the conclusion, the writer should restate each argument in a last effort to make a impact on the reader.
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Body of the Piece- Each paragraph of the body should be a main argument that supports what you are trying to persuade the reader to believe. The paragraphs should consist of your arguments, and the facts that you have to back up that argument.
Conclusion- In the conclusion, the writer should restate each argument in a last effort to make a impact on the reader.
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History of Persuasion
- "Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration,
since we are most fully persuaded when we
consider a thing to have been demonstrated Of the modes of persuasion furnished
by the spoken word there are three kinds. [...]
- Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character
when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. [...]Secondly, persuasion may come through the hearers,
when the speech stirs their emotions. [...]
Thirdly, persuasion is effected through the speech itself
when we have proved a truth or an apparent truth by means
of the persuasive arguments suitable to the case in question."
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