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 resourceFantastic illustrations!
16/01/2016
Fantastic illustrations!
16/01/2016
excellent worksheet, I am teaching English to Spanish Students, this type of resource are a great tool. many thanks
04/12/2015
Great for visual learners! The examples are also a great stimulus for the student's own ideas too.
10/11/2015
Excellent for visual learners. Thank you for this:-)
02/06/2015
This is fabulous, especially for visual learners like me! I loved the poetry annotations and this will be great both as a poster and handouts for the students. many thanks!
02/06/2015
Excellent.
18/05/2015
