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ACTIVITY SHEET #3: Writing Techniques

GEAR UP
MELC: Use a variety of informative, persuasive, and argumentative writing techniques

After the learners have finished answering this activity sheet, they will be able to:
1. differentiate informative, persuasive, and argumentative text;
2. classify writing techniques as informative, persuasive, and argumentative; and 3. construct
an essay demonstrating any of the three writing techniques.

ENGAGE

WRITING TECHNIQUES
A writing technique is a style an author uses to convey their message in a manner that is effective and
meaningful to their audience. Understanding the different types of writing techniques is important because
you will need to change your style of writing to make a connection with your audience.

Informative Writing
The informative writing definition is precisely what its name implies – writing that is designed to inform the
reader about a given topic. Informative writing, which is sometimes called expository or explanatory writing,
uses evidence and information from credible sources to support a focused and logical explanation of the topic
at hand. The following techniques were used:
1. It uses unbiased information about a given topic that is presented in a way that helps the reader
truly understand the subject. It sticks with facts and enables readers to draw their own conclusions 2.
It uses language that is easy to comprehend. If technical terms are included, clear definitions and
explanations of those terms are also included.
3. It is specific - explains what happened, where and when it happened, as well as why it is important.
4. It uses a variety of sentence structures to keep the reader from getting bored.
5. Ideas are organized in a way that makes sense. Each body paragraph focus on explaining a single idea
that was introduced in the thesis statement and that develops the topic in a logical manner.
6. The concluding paragraph summarizes the main points made throughout the essay and should also
restate the thesis statement in a new way.

Persuasive Writing
Persuasive writing is a form of writing that encourages careful word choice, the development of logical
arguments, and a cohesive summary. It is used to convince or persuade a reader that the writer’s opinion of a
topic or cause is correct by appealing to readers' emotions to make them believe something or take specific
action. The following techniques are used:
1. Combines facts with emotions to convince the reader that the author is “right”
2. Emotion-based
3. Ignores counter claims
4. Presents only ideas that help establish a position
5. Only presents only one side – the author’s side
6. Make claims without evidence
7. Uses tone that is emotionally charged and more aggressive ‘

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8. Uses persuasive words - “for this reason, because, I believe, as evidence shows” etc. Have a list of
these words and phrases displayed so that students can easily use them when writing persuasive essays.
Argumentative Writing
In argumentative writing, you are typically asked to take a position on an issue or topic and explain and
support your position with research from reliable and credible sources. It uses logic and evidence to build a
case for a specific claim. The following techniques are used:
1. Offers facts, reasons, and evidence to show the author has valid points
2. Logic-based
3. May compare ideas to establish a position
4. Presents multiple sides but is clear which is the author’s side
5. Always provides evidence with claims
6. The tone is calmer – trying to convince that the author’s side is worth considering
*See sources in References

TEST
Directions: Identify the writing technique used. Write IN for informative, PR for persuasive, AR for
argumentative, and ALL if it is a technique used in all writing styles.

______ 1. It is logic-based. ______ 7. It always provides evidence with claims.

______ 2. It ignores counter claims. ______ 8. It uses language that is easy to
comprehend.
______ 3. It uses unbiased information.
______ 9. It offers facts, reasons, and evidence to
______ 4. It contains a thesis statement.
support a claim.
______ 5. It makes claims without evidence.
______ 10. The concluding paragraph summarizes
______ 6. It uses a tone that is more the main points made throughout the
aggressive. essay.

REINFORCE
Directions: Read carefully each text below. Identify the kind of text and at least three writing techniques
used. Write your answers in the table below.

Text 1: COMBATING THE CULT OF THINNESS

Why would a frightening percentage of women gladly trade five years off their lives for 10 pounds
off their bodies, or prefer to be perceived as thin rather than as kind or intelligent? This obsession
with thinness needs to be understood if we are to avoid the consequences, which are often tragic.
Beyond this, there are further steps that ought to be taken so that women can have a healthier and
more positive sense of themselves.
It is no wonder that women are obsessed with thinness. From a very young age, it is emphasized
to women how important it is to be pretty, and to be pretty by society’s standards means being thin.
This blatant message is seen everywhere. Not only do images in magazines, TV commercials and
billboard posters put an exaggerated emphasis on women's bodies, they also hold up an ideal of
thinness that is almost impossible to attain. Computer-enhanced photography employs techniques
such as airbrushing blemishes and slenderizing the bodies of models. This adds to the creation of an
ideal model that women strive to mimic.
Society’s prescription of what it means to be feminine needs a rewrite. Current definitions of
femininity are dictated by a social system that gains control over women by defining them primarily in
terms of their bodies. In order to see change, women must challenge the industries that feed upon
body insecurity. They need to change the messages that women absorb daily. One method would be
to stop purchasing the very fashion magazines that have been allowed to define femininity. Large-
scale boycotts of these fashion magazines can lead to major change of the feminine ideal.
Source: Combating the Cult of Thinness. (1999 – 2021). Retrieved from https://www.echeat.com/free-essay/Combating-the-Cult-of-Thinness -
30703.aspx

TEXT: Check one.

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Informative Persuasive
Argumentative
WRITING TECHNIQUE USED SENTENCE/S
Ex. Emotion-based Why would a frightening percentage of women gladly trade five years off
their lives for 10 pounds off their bodies, or prefer to be perceived as thin
rather than as kind or intelligent?

Text 2: THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN THE PHILIPPINES

In the Philippines, English prevails as the predominant medium of instruction. All subjects except
Filipino is taught in English. Philippines is one of the few countries that does not use its own national
language as its medium of instruction. Filipino should be the medium of instruction in Philippine
schools because it is the national language, and it is already developed. Although it is sad that the
students have not mastered it.
Filipino should be the medium of instruction in Philippine schools because it is the national
language. Filipino is what the students are familiar with and what they use for communicating. The
students are also not using their full potential because they cannot use their own mother tongue in
participating in class. They are having a hard time because they need to speak in English which they
are not too familiar with. As Wolfaardt (2001) said, “the learners are not always able to understand
instructions and as a result they are not able to perform as they would have done in their mother
tongue”. Students who learn with their mother tongue would easily comprehend the lesson and
perform better. In Kalinga, a test was conducted among grade 1 to 3 learners who were taught in
their mother tongue in subjects of English and Filipino. They were able to attain a grade of 76% for
both subjects (Monsod, 2009). The students were able to pass and gain a score above the average.
It proves that using a student’s mother tongue is more effective in developing a student’s learning.
No one can deny the need for learning English, but it should only be learned and not be used as
the medium of instruction. Although English is a universal language, using Filipino as the medium of
instruction is vital in students learning. Filipino is still the national language and as studies show,
learning in the mother tongue is more effective for both Filipino and English. By learning in their first
language, the students will be able to build a strong foundation and will master not only their mother
tongue but also additional languages such as English. Students who learn in their mother tongue are
able to learn more effectively.
Source: Rellosa, Hana. (22 April 2015). Argumentative Essay: The Medium of Instruction in the Philippines.
Retrieved from https://a55arellosahana.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/argumentative -essay-the-medium -of-
instruction-in-the-philippines

TEXT: Check one.

Informative Persuasive
Argumentative
WRITING TECHNIQUE USED SENTENCE/S

Text 3: PHILIPPINES STUDENTS FACE DISTANCE LEARNING UNTIL COVID-19 VACCINE FOUND
MANILA (Reuters) - With schools in the Philippines only due to reopen when a vaccine for COVID-19
has been found, educational authorities are racing to devise a distance learning regime for 27 million
children by August, when the summer holidays end.

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That poses a huge challenge in an archipelago nation of 107 million, where many households have
no access to the internet or a computer, and teachers fear they will not be ready to roll out remote
learning in two months.
Duterte last month said resuming face-to-face classes without a vaccine for COVID-19 “spells
disaster”.
Elsewhere in the world, schools are starting to reopen for students with social distancing regimes to
keep infection rates down, and amid fears about children missing out on weeks of their education.
However, Duterte’s education secretary, Leonor Briones, is confident alternative approaches can work
until a vaccine is developed.
“The president cares about our students, he told us to find other ways (to teach) besides students going
back to school,” Briones said in an online media briefing.
She said the department was laying the groundwork for a different kind of learning using technology
including radio, television, online classes and modular learning.
More than 1,000 people in the Philippines have died due to COVID-19 and nearly 23,000 have been
infected. Briones, 79, has herself recovered from COVID-19.
There are more than 100 potential vaccines being developed globally, but most estimate it would be
at least a year before any are ready for deployment.
Philippines Students Face Distance Learning Until COVID-19 Vaccine Found.(2020).Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/us -health-coronavirus -philippines-school-
idUSKBN23G1HK

TEXT: Check one.

Informative Persuasive
Argumentative
WRITING TECHNIQUE USED SENTENCE/S

INTEGRATE
Directions: Read the given situation below. Decide on a specific topic that you will write about and
determine the writing technique you will use (ex. informative technique on discussing the history of
wikepedia). Then, create a blueprint / outline of what you are going to write by answering the questions.

As a Grade 10 student, you are often asked to write paragraphs or essays about a
given topic. When you write, where do you get your ideas? Where do the information
you use come from? Do you use Wikepedia, Brainly, or other internet sites? As a
student, what can you say about these internet sites? What can you tell about them?
Should students use them in doing their assignments in school? Why or why not?

Topic Grade 10 students who pass the shs.

Writing Narrative Statement discussing the grade 1o students intellectual
Technique
quotient
What will be your topic sentence or your claim / assertion?
The topic I will do is about diference iq of a g10 student.
Introduction

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How will you introduce it? What background / general knowledge do you know about it?
Ill introduce it as I cite different strategies that will gain one’s iq

What information / facts do you know about your topic? Will you use evidence? Where will
you get your evidence?
Body – I will cite some the same info about my topic.
Paragraph 1

What other information do you know? What information go against the initial information
do you have?
Body – I will give some circumstance which will be their based about the topic I provide.
Paragraph 2

How will you end your essay?

Conclusion Ill end this on giving some conclusion about the said topic.

A SSESS
Directions: Read each question carefully. Write the letter of your answer on the blank.

______ 1. What writing technique is used in a news report?

a. argumentative b. informative c. persuasive d. all three
______ 2. Which of the following uses persuasive writing technique?
a. advertisements b. documentary film c. TV drama series d. science textbook
______ 3. Which of the following is NOT a technique used in argumentative writing?
a. use of logic c. use of calmer tone
b. use of aggressive tone d. use of counterclaims
______ 4. Which writing technique makes use of facts?
a. argumentative b. informative c. persuasive d. all three
______ 5. What writing technique is used in the sentence, ‘An article in The Guardian stresses a common
objection to its use: “a reliance on Wikipedia can discourage students from engaging with genuine
academic writing” (Coomer, 2013).’?
a. combining facts with emotions c. discusses multiple sides
b. presents only the author’s side d. providing evidence with claims

SHARPEN
Directions: Using the blueprint you worked on in INTEGRATE, compose a 4-paragraph essay on your
chosen topic. Use the correct techniques to show the type of writing you indicated – informative,
persuasive, argumentative. Be guided by the rubric below.

the academic achievement and intelligence level of Secondary School students of science, management, and
education streams to identify the enrollment trend of students in teacher education in Nepal. The effectiveness of
any educational system depends upon the teachers or the educational leaders who actually perform this
profession. Intelligence is a very important Key factor to determine the student’s academic performance in school.
Intelligence is cognitive potentiality which helps to increase the learning abilities in the students. Every
Curriculums aim is to test the intelligence level in this way both intelligence and academic achievements inter

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related object. Intelligence fully influences on academic achievement. Intelligence increases learning ability and
their Academic Performance. It shows that more intelligence student’s performance is always better than other
students.

RUBRICS
5 3
Well- developed introductory
INTRODUCTION paragraph contains detailed
Background/history background, a clear explanation or
Thesis Statement definition of the problem, and a
thesis / topic statement
Three or more main points are well
developed with supporting details.
MAIN POINTS Refutation paragraph(s)
Body acknowledges the opposing view
Paragraphs and summarizes their main points
(as needed).
Conclusion summarizes the main
topics without repeating previous
CONCLUSION sentences; writer’s opinions and
suggestions for change are logical
and well thought out.
Logical, compelling progression of
ideas in essay; clear structure which
enhances and showcases the
ORGANIZATION
central idea or theme and moves
the reader through the text. Correct
use of transitions.
MECHANICS
Sentence Structure Sentence structure is correct.
Punctuation & Punctuation and capitalization are
Capitalization correct.
Introductory paragraph contains
some background information and
states the problem / topic sentence
but does not explain using details.
Three or more main points are
present but may lack detail and
development in one or two.
Refutation paragraph(s) (as
needed) acknowledges the
opposing view but does not
summarize points.
Conclusion summarizes main
topics. Some suggestions for
change are evident
Progression of ideas in essay is
awkward yet moves the reader
through the text without too much
confusion. Transitions appear
sporadically, but not equally
throughout the essay.
Work contains structural
weaknesses and grammatical
errors. There are three or four
errors in punctuation and/or
capitalization.
1
Introductory paragraph is vague or
unclear. Background details are a
seemingly random collection of
information, unclear, or not related
to the topic.
Less than three main points, with
poor development of ideas.
Refutation missing or vague (as
needed).
Conclusion does not adequately
summarize the main points. No
suggestions for change and/or
opinions are included
Arrangement of essay is unclear
and illogical. The writing lacks a
clear sense of direction. Ideas,
details, or events seem strung
together in a loose or random
fashion.
Work contains multiple incorrect
sentence structures. There are four
or more errors in punctuation and/or
capitalization.

References:
Borroso, K.(2018).Informative Writing Techniques. Retrieved from https://www.theclassroom.com/informative -writing-techniques-7929529.html
Combating the Cult of Thinness. (1999 – 2021). Retrieved from https://www.echeat.com/free -essay/Combating-the-Cult-of-Thinness-30703.aspx
International Reading Association. (2014). What Is the Difference Between Persuasive and Argumentative Writing? Retrieved from What is Persuasive Writing.
(2021). Retrieved from http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson-docs/Difference_Between_Persuasive_Argumentative.pdf
Philippines Students Face Distance Learning Until COVID-19 Vaccine Found.(2020).Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-
philippines-school-idUSKBN23G1HK
Quick Guide to Informative Writing Techniques. (2009-2021). Retrieved from https://writers -house.com/blog/quick-guide-informative-writing-techniques/
Rellosa, Hana. (22 April 2015). Argumentative Essay: The Medium of Instruction in the Philippines. Retrieved from
https://a55arellosahana.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/argumentative -essay-themedium-of-instruction-in-the-philippines

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SELF-MONITORING
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For Parents / Guardians (Please check one in each column.)
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