Persuasive Writing


by Jennifer Burns - Date: 2007-04-10 - Word Count: 342 Share This!

Persuasive writing is a type of writing where your main goal is to persuade or convince someone to do something that you want them to do. A form of persuasive writing is a letter written to someone telling him/her a complaint that you have. In order to write a persuasive letter you need to have reasons why the person should do what you are suggesting. You also need reasons why your idea might not be the greatest. So you basically have reasons from your perspective and from someone who thinks the opposite of you. Try to make your letters or pieces of writing as convincing as you can! Give reasons to support your cause and explain what the consequences will be if the things you are listing aren't done. Lastly, your conclusion should restate what you are trying to persuade the person to do. How to make someone do what you want them to? First, tell your reader what he would like to hear. Use flattery, make the reader feel sorry for you, distort the facts / lie, abuse your opponents. (Keep it subtle as you don't want to appear malicious). Also you could blind the reader with science, also fancy formulas and technical terms work well. Of course you have to use emotive or biased vocabulary rather than straightforward words and quote statistics and use them to mean what you want them to mean. Use the words "surely", "obviously" and "of course". Make an emotional appeal to your reader. Animals and children always appeal. Other important aspects are link statements which don't necessarily follow on from one another: "It's pouring with rain. Therefore I deserve a new toy."
Elements toward building a good persuasive speech or essay include: establishing facts to support an argument; clarifying relevant values for your audience (perspective); prioritizing, editing, and/or sequencing the facts and values in importance to build the argument; forming and stating conclusions; "persuading" your audience that your conclusions are based upon the agreed-upon facts and shared values having the confidence to communicate your "persuasion" in writing.


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Jennifer Burns is the head of customer care center at Custom-Writing.org, coursework service. Having completed a number of academic assignments himself, Jennifer uses her knowledge to provide individualized customer support to students, who order custom research papers and custom term papers

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