Lesson 3

What is an Advocacy?
Advocacy is an active promotion of a cause or
principle.
Advocacy involves actions that lead to a
selected goal.
Advocacy is one of many possible strategies, or
ways to approach a problem.
Advocacy can be used as part of a community
initiative, nested in with other components.
Advocacy is not direct service.
Advocacy does not necessarily involve
confrontation or conflict.
Advocacy is a text form that uses
different text types such as persuasive,
informative, descriptive, narrative, and
argumentative.
Recognizing appropriate language used in Advocacy
 The statements, Let’s Educate everyone to
practice Proper Waste Management and Proper
Waste Management is better done with multitude
hands and minds are examples of environmental
advocacies that reflect awareness of imparting
knowledge to people and developing community
support to act over the existing issue.

In Advocacy # 1, it uses literal language while

Advocacy # 2 uses figurative language.
 Please pay attention that in making
an advocacy, both the literal and
figurative language can be used.

Figurative language is a language that

is indirect, connotative or goes beyond
its literal meaning.