Understanding Persuasive Techniques

It is a type of writing that aims at convincing people to think, feel, or to act in the writer’s way.

• Persuasive Writing

• Argumentative Writing

• Informative Writing

• Essay

This is a question that is not intended to be answered. Instead, it is meant to state the obvious, or to challenge the readers and to make them think.

• Rhetorical Question

• Appeal to Emotion

• Appeal to Authority

• Bandwagon

This is the technique where a writer needs to establish himself as an authority in the topic he is writing about by using facts.

• Appeal to Emotion

• Appeal to Authority

• Bandwagon

• Repetition

This is the technique where repeating key words or phrases will likely make readers remember them.

• Bandwagon

• Repetition

• Appeal to Authority

• Rhetorical Question

The use of emotive language can help sway the readers to side with the writer or to do what he says.

• Appeal to Authority

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Emotion

• Repetition

This is the technique that would convince a reader to believe in an idea because the majority or everybody else believes it’s true.

• Repetition

• Appeal to Emotion

• Appeal to Authority

• Bandwagon

“Wouldn’t you do everything to make your family happy?”

• Rhetorical Question

• Appeal to Emotion

• Appeal to Authority

• Bandwagon

“Nine out of 10 students got higher grades because of the modular learning setup.”

• Repetition

• Appeal to Emotion

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Authority

“Be thankful that you have more than what you need. Others children do not even have a roof above their head, but they study harder than anyone.”

• Repetition

• Appeal to Emotion

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Authority

According to renowned psychologist Carl Rogers, “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

• Repetition

• Appeal to Emotion

• Bandwagon

• Appeal to Authority