English 10

Persuasive
Essay
Persuasive writing can
be...
 Persuasive writing can
be...

They try to get the readers to agree or to take an

action.
 Persuasive writing
usually contains
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The writer’s Evidence or The action
opinion, which information that the
he/she wants to support writer wants
the readers the writer’s the readers
to accept opinion to do
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Effective and
commonly used
persuasive
techniques
 This is a question
Rhetorical that is not intended
to be answered.
Question Instead, it is meant
to state the
obvious, or to
challenge the
readers and to
make them think.
Rhetorical
Question Wouldn’t you do
everything to make
your
family happy?
Repetition Repeating key
words or phrases
will likely make
readers remember
them.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us—that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they here
gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.

-Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"

There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem.
There is no Northern problem. There is only an American
problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans—not
as Democrats or Republicans—we are met here as
Americans to solve that problem.

- "The American Promise" President Johnson

Bandwagon convince a reader
to believe in an
idea because the
majority or
everybody else
believes it’s true.
 The use of
Appeal to emotive language
Emotion. can help sway the
readers to side
with the writer or
to do what he
says.
Appeal to Be thankful that you have
Emotion. more than what you need.
Others children do not
even have a roof above
their head, but they study
harder than anyone.
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