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persuasive, Make sure that your persuasive claim is clear and direct. Do…
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Make sure that your persuasive claim is clear and direct. Do not deviate from your claim or suggest that
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Have at least three support points. Order the support points in your persuasion from weakest to strongest.
Use first-person pronouns (I, me, my, we) to enhance the personal appeal.
Use second-person pronouns (you, your) to address the reader directly.
Your purpose is to manipulate the thinking of the reader. Do whatever you must to accomplish that goal.
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The persuasive purpose is used to convince, or persuade, the reader that the opinion, or assertion, or claim, of the writer is correct or valid. Persuasion is more selfish than argument (debate).
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. But persuasive writing is concerned primarily with convincing the reader at any cost. Various appeals are used to manipulate the reader. Persuasive writing has a definite bias, or lack of objectivity. Its function is to change the mind of the reader or to move the reader to action.
By appealing to logic, writers persuade. A successful appeal to logos requires tangible evidence, e.g., a quote from a reliable source.
By appealing to credibility, writers make their claims more believable. The writer builds on his or her ethos by writing with clarity.
By appealing to emotions, writers persuade. This is possibly the most important of the appeals. If you judge a mood, or correctly address feelings about the subject, you can win over an audience.
Most persuasive writing techniques use all three appeals.
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Make sure that your persuasive claim is clear and direct. Do not deviate from your claim or suggest that