Writing to argue and persuade: techniques
A beautifully illustrated resource full of examples of commonly used persuasive techniques:
- alliteration
- emotive language
- opinions
- humour
- statistics
- rhetorical questions
- direct address
- rebuttals
- punctuation for effect
- repetition
- triplets / lists of three
- anecdotes
- first person
- imperatives
- examples
- varying sentence length for effect
- contrasting pairs
- exclamatory style.
Use this with students as a revision aid, to identify techniques in persuasive texts, or as a checklist for writing to persuade.
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Review this resourceA great visual resource and handout. Thanks.
03/09/2017
Thank you for this resource. The examples given for each technique will help to clarify the techniques for my learners. I look forward to using it.
22/06/2017
A great resource. Very useful for functional skills English!
22/06/2017
Beautifully set out and very much to the point. Thanks!
29/03/2017
Great visual resource.
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07/03/2017
I used this resource to illustrate non-fiction writing and text types. It is a clear visual. Excellent
15/12/2016
Lovely - Thanks!
09/11/2016
This is a fantastic resource! I'll definitely be using it for the new GCSE English Language specification. Thank you!
13/10/2016
All your illustrations are superb and invaluable! Thankyou.
27/05/2016
Brilliant resource for all visual learners. Thank You!
20/03/2016
