Thursday, July 28, 2011

Persuasive Writing

USE the information on this page to write an awesome and persuasive essay or speech!


LET'S GET STARTED

PERSUASION (EXPOSITION)
Visit this site and click on the 'Persuasion' link.  Read the examples and learn how to write a good piece of persuasive writing.



EXAMPLES: ARGUMENT
Real work by real children!  What level is your writing at and what are YOUR next steps?



FEATURES OF ARGUMENTS
What makes a good argument?  Visit this site and find out.




Hit 'Web Link' for some fun online activities.  Customise the level to between 2 and 3 in the blue column to the right.




PERSUASIVE ESSAYS
Writing a good persuasion is as simple as baking a batch of cookies.  So warm up your ovens and get ready because we're going to start baking... ah, I mean writing.



BITEWISE: ARGUE, PERSUADE, AND ADVISE
Take the three pronged approach to this subject: revise, practise, and then test yourself.



ROAD SAFETY PERSUASION
Click the various parts, e.g., 'Belief', to highlight these elements in the text.




SENTENCE STARTERS

Check out these fantastic sentence starters...
  1. List 1
  2. List 2
  3. List 3
  4. List 4
  5. List 5 (Advanced)



OTHER A+ WORDS

Make use of the top quality words on the two writing 'blackboards'.  Mix it up, crank out a few complex sentences and improve your writing.




GIVE EXAMPLES CORRECTLY


These are both very important terms.  Do you know what they mean?  YOU SHOULD!  If you don't, you're kind of like the person on the sign... IN TROUBLE!
  1. QUANTIFY
  2. QUALIFY



FINALLY, CHECK YOUR PUNCTUATION!

"Roll your mouse over the punctuation mark to find out its name and how it's used."

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