Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Elements of Persuasive Genre

D: What is persuasive writing?


  • Persuasive writing is texts that try to convince you to buy something, do something, or believe something.

P: How do I read a persuasive text?


  • I look for the AAA!
  • I look out for exaggerations (bigger than reality).


C: Why do we read persuasive texts?

  • Decide who to vote for
  • Look for commercial deals
  • Challenge our beliefs




(A)  identify the author's viewpoint or position and explain the basic relationships among ideas (e.g., parallelism, comparison, causality) in the argument; and

(B)  recognize exaggerated, contradictory, or misleading statements in text.

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