1.7 PERSUASIVE WRITING

• Persuasive Essay - Also known as Argumentative Essay.
• Persuasive Essay - Is any piece of academic writing where you use reason and logic to show that your point of view is more legitemate than any other.
• General Tips in writing a persuasive essay

  • Set your position straight from the beginning and maintain it throughout the paper.
  • Always base your paper on facts and factual evidences only.
  • Build your arguments in progression. From least to most important ones.
  • Assume your reader does not know anything about the topic.
  • Disprove the opposing claim. Search for information that will refute the opposing positions.
  • State specific, relevant, and realistic examples that can make your position stronger.
  • Remember the three main elements of persuasive writing.
• Logos - The appeal to reason and logic.
• Logos - You express it by using facts presented in a logical manner.
• Ethos - The appeal to ethics.
• Ethos - You must convince your reader that you're right from an ethical point of view.
• Pathos - The appeal to emotion.
• Pathos - You have to awaken the reader's sympathy.
• Pathos - Arouse any kind of emotion.
• Your persuasive essay should achieve the perfect balance between logos, ethos, and pathos.
• Outline - The structure of your paper.
• Parts of Persuasive Essay

  • Introduction
  • Body
  • Conclusion
• Introduction - This is the part where you introduce your topic and expose your thesis statement.
• Body - This is where you state your facts and prove your thesis with arguments.
• Body - This is where you disprove the arguments of your opponents.
• Conclusion - This is where you'll bring all points down into a logical ending,
• Introduction - Your goal is to attract the reader's attention.
• Conclusion - Show exactly how your point of view is the right stance and invite your reader to take action.
• Paraphrasing - Is putting something into your own words.
• Paraphrasing - This is also done in order to prevent plagiarism in writing academic papers.
• Four r's

  • Reword
  • Rearrange
  • Realize
  • Recheck
• Reword - Replaces the words and phrases with synonyms.
• Rearrange - Rearranges words to sentences to create new sentences.
• Realize - Some words or phrases cannot be changed, replaced. But you can present them differently in your paraphrase.
• Recheck - Make sure your paraphrase conveys the same meaning as the original text.
• Revising - You re-look at the parts of your essay and make sure those parts are strong and will work together to make a coherent whole.
• Revising - It includes adding, cutting, moving, or changing information.
• Editing - In this stage, you check your text to make sure that there are no errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Publishing - The last stage of writing process where you share your essay to your readers.
• "A professional writer is an ameteur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach
• "A professional writer is an ameteur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach