Persuasive Writing

You can use persuasive writing to convince your family, friends, teachers and even strangers of your point of view

• True

• False

What do you use to defend your position in a persuasive essay?

• Grapes and popcorn

• Your opinion

• Reasons and evidence

• Details

A reason needs to be supported by 

• reasons

• opinion

• hook

• evidence and facts

What is the name of the paragraph that STARTS your persuasive essay?

• Introduction

• Body Paragraph

• Conclusion

Which of the following would be the strongest argument to persuade you to buy a new video game:

• The video game is expensive.

• The video game is almost as fun as the ones you have.

• The video game has OK graphics.

• The video game won an award for Game of the Year.

A writer who uses persuasion attempts to:

• teach you how to make or do something

• influence you to do or believe something

• inform you about historic or current events

• tell a story

What are the components of a persuasive writing?

• Argument, Details, Thesis

• Topic sentence, Details, Concluding, Sentence

• Introduction, Thesis Statement, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion

• Who cares?

What is the purpose of persuasive writing?

• To inform

• To persuade

What is the purpose of the thesis?

• To remind your reader what your paper is about

• to state your opinion or claim and prove it

• To hook the reader's attention

• To use vocabulary words

Where should a thesis statement appear?

• first paragraph

• anywhere in the essay

• last paragraph

• the first sentence of every paragraph