Summary persuasive writing tips

Persuasive Writing Tips:
Your aim is to make the reader believe something, agree with something or do
something. You need to work hard to get them on your side. Always be polite
and respectful to your reader in order to win them over.

Perfect Persuasive Techniques: Appeal to Human Weaknesses:

P = Personal Language  Fear
E = Emotive Language  Greed
R = Rhetorical Question  Pride
F = Facts and Opinions  Envy
E = Exaggeration  Laziness
C = Commands  Insecurity
T = Triple Emphasis



Useful Phrases to begin paragraphs:

 I would argue that …
 I’m sure that you’d agree …
 However/ Nevertheless…
 In my opinion…
 Although it is true that ….. I would argue that ….
 Moreover….
 Firstly…. Secondly….. Thirdly…..
 It appears that …..
 Do you realise that….?
 It is disgraceful/ regrettable/ deplorable….

When writing you should:

 Keep writing lively to entertain the reader. This can be done by:
o Using a range of sentence lengths: One word/ two word
sentences
o Range of interesting punctuation for effect.
 One line paragraphs for effect.
 Use a range of language devices.
 Use a range of interesting vocabulary.
 Use model verbs to ensure a polite tone – should, could, would etc.
 Use in interesting opening sentence to grab the reader’s attention –
try to begin with a technique.
 Check spelling, grammar and punctuation.
 Always ensure that you are writing appropriately for the audience.



How should I structure my answer?