Techniques for Sophisticated Persuasive Writing

Enhance your persuasive writing skills by incorporating techniques such as anecdotes, hyperbole, statistics, and expert opinions. Learn how to use collective pronouns, rhetorical questions, and humor to effectively argue your point of view. Practice embedding clauses and utilizing semi-colons for added sophistication in your writing.

• Persuasive writing
• Techniques
• Sophisticated
• Vocabulary
• Variation

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1. Learning Objective: to plan and write with a sophisticated point of view, using wide vocabulary and variation. Argue / Persuade: Techniques - Anecdotes - Collective pronouns - Direct Address - Adverbials - Pre-modification - Hyperbole - Expert Opinions - Modal verbs - Imperatives - Rhetorical question - Flattery - Emotive words - Discrediting the other side of the argument - List of 3 - Statistics - Conditionals - Future gazing - Humour - Sarcasm - Abstractions CONNECT Discussion: Remind yourself of some of the ways that you can argue your point of view or persuade someone else to change theirs. Can you remember some of these techniques?

2. Time to level up! Embedded clauses: Sadly, our elderly neighbours, despite the council s best efforts, feel helpless and abandoned. Semi-colons: (use them to link two independent clause sentences on the same topic) Money is the root of all evil; I don t believe the reverse is necessarily true.

3. Time to level up! A good idea to skilfully use embedded clauses: It is not that fireworks are a nuisance per se, however, in the wrong hands they are potentially dangerous, even lethal.

4. Have a look at these different headlines and openings. Which ones do you think are the most effective? Why? Headlines: 1 Is Prison Really That Tough? 2 Should Prisons Be Tougher? 3 Prisons: Hotel or Punishment? 4 Is Prison a Real Deterrent? 5 Over-Populated Prisons: Do We Need to Rethink Criminal Punishment? Openings: A Being an ex-Prison Warden, I know that the conditions of prisons are nowhere near as comfortable as the media suggest. The general public are bombarded by images of games consoles, televisions, pool tables and reduced sentences. However, B I think burglary is an awful crime. I was once burgled. The criminal was never caught. I have a right to be angry about this. Even if they had been caught it would have been a very small punishment. C Disgracefully, prisons are too soft on criminals. It does not stop people from doing it again. I think D Are prisons attempting to fulfil too many functions? Of course, locking dangerous people away from the general population is part of the consideration, but what do they do with convicted criminals to ensure that they are rehabilitated. Clearly, consistently cruel punishment may not show the prisoner that there is another way to live their life. It could be suggested that E The facts speak for themselves, 63% of prisoners re-offend when they are released. Prisons do not work. Making them tougher may F Most people would agree that some criminals should be locked up and we should throw away the key. Some criminals do not deserve any sympathy. Despite trying to help them they G 6.30am. The alarm bells ring for the beginning of the prison day; inmates are preparing meals, cleaning the cells and

5. Learning Objective: to plan and write with a sophisticated point of view, using wide vocabulary and variation. Activate: Take a look at how a persuasive paragraph is Activate: Take a look at how a persuasive paragraph is put together: put together: Prisons: Hotel or Punishment? As a victim of crime who is afraid to leave their own house, I am furious to know that criminals are not being properly punished. I understand that the Police have a difficult job and that they cannot solve every crime. However, when they successfully prosecute these criminals they do serve their whole sentence. Where I live the majority of houses are owned by elderly people. At night our estate feels dangerous, even lawless. I can only think that this is because there is no fear of being punished. If we ensure that criminals are punished then it might act as a deterrent for some of these people. I am also extremely concerned about the fact that young people are being drawn into crime too. When I think about all the places I could visit when I was a child and compare that to now there is little for young people to do. Although this could also be an excuse for poor parenting.

6. Activate: Activate: Prisons: Hotel or Punishment? As a victim of crime who is afraid to leave their own house, I am furious to know that criminals are not being properly punished. I understand that the Police have a difficult job and that they cannot solve every crime. However, when they successfully prosecute these criminals they do not serve their whole sentence. Where I live the majority of houses are owned by elderly people. At night our estate feels dangerous, even lawless. I can only think that this is because there is no fear of being punished. If we ensure that criminals are punished then it might act as a deterrent for some of these people. I am also extremely concerned about the fact that young people are being drawn into crime too. When I think about all the places I could visit when I was a child and compare that to now there is little for young people to do. Although this could also be an excuse for poor parenting. Notice how this paragraph uses an anecdote (example story), emotive language and strong opinions. Task: How could it be improved?

7. There are now 3 questions to choose from: 1) Fireworks. 2) The commercialisation of Christmas. 3) Video game violence. Choose one of the questions and try to write a 4 paragraph response giving your views with examples. Remember to use wide vocabulary, some is provided for some of the questions.

8. Learning Objective: to plan and write with a sophisticated point of view, using wide vocabulary and variation. Q) Fireworks are a nuisance to the public. They scare animals, young children and people with a phobia. The idea of selling explosives to the general public is abhorrent and immoral; it has no place in a civilised society. Write a newspaper article giving your opinion on this topic.

9. Guilt Q) Christmas is too commercialised. It forces families into difficult decisions, means excessive debt and it is an exhausting period that has lost its meaning . Embarrassment Inequality Expectations Advertising Manipulation Coercion Targeting Brainwashing Write a newspaper article giving your opinion on this topic. Personal Responsibility Discipline Delayed Gratification

10. Disturbing Parental Advisory Pervasive (everywhere) Expletives (swear words) Destructive Parasitic Boundaries Respect Pugilism / Pugilistic (violence) Tragedy Explicit Copycat Fantasy / Reality Personal Responsibility Effective Parenting Q) The proliferation of violence in video games, television and movies is distorting the minds of young people. The media is setting an appalling example to children; there must be much tighter regulations put in place to safeguard children and their development. Write a newspaper article giving your opinion on this topic.