Sam

• MO


  Three Techniques In Persuasive writing
• DATE


  2011
• Presenting Strong Evidence


  • Evidence in the form of facts and statistics, statements of expert authorities, and research findings establish credibility
• Concrete, relevant, and reasonable examples


  • Can enhance the writer's idea or opinion, can be based on observations or the writer's personal experiences
• Accurate, Current, and balanced Information

  • Adds to the credibility of persuasive writing, the writer does not only present evidence that favors his or her ideas, but also acknowledges some evidence that opposes his or her own, making the writing more rounded
• Strong evidence


  • Establishes credibility
• Concrete, relevant, and reasonable example


  • Can enhance the writer's idea or opinion
• Accurate, current and balanced information

  • Adds to the credibility of persuasive writing
• Modes of Persuasion


  Ethical strategies to convince an audience of one's credibility or character, introduced by the Greek philosopher Aristotle
• Modes of Persuasion


  • Ethos
  • Pathos
  • Logos
• Ethos


  Appeal to ethics
• Pathos


  Appeal to emotion
• Logos


  Appeal to logic and reason
• Logical fallacy


  The use of invalid or faulty reasoning
• Ad hominem


  Argument that opposes the point made by attacking the person who makes them
• Faulty cause and effect

  Two events that happen sequentially are casually related
• Either or reasoning


  Incorrectly presents a limited number of options
• Hasty generalization


  Generalization or conclusion drawn based on little evidence
• False analogy


  Incorrectly assumes that a causal relation exists between two things or events
• Circular reasoning


  States the very thesis as its proof
• Ad misericordiam


  Attempts to persuade others by provoking feelings of pity
• Claims


  Statements that an author discusses, explains or proves in their writing
• Liturgical Calendar


  • The annual cycle of reasons and days in observance of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
• Christmas


  Signifies the birth of Jesus Christ, celebrated on December 25th
• Advent


  The four-week preparation to remember the period before Jesus Christ's birth
• Epiphany


  Signifies the visitation of the wise men to baby Jesus, who brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh, celebrated 12 days after Christmas
• Baptism


  The person to be baptized is poured with holy water to signify the joy's cleaning and free them from the original sin, both infants and adults can be baptized
• The Last Supper


  The last meal of Jesus Christ with his disciples where they share bread and wine before his death
• Sacrament of the Eucharist


  The remembrance of the Last Supper during Catholic church ceremonies, the bread as the body of Christ
• Lenten Season


  Forty days of preparation for the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christians do abstinence or avoid pleasures like eating meat
• Ash Wednesday


  A ritual where ashes are poured or marked as a cross in a Catholic's head or forehead, signifying human mortality and the need of Catholic followers to reconcile with God
• Deity of Christ


  • Jesus Christ is the son of God, He was sinless, He was prophesied as the Messiah in the Old Testament, He worked miracles by his divine power during his life, He healed the sick, raised people from the dead, controlled nature
• Resurrection of the Dead and the Day of Judgement

  Christians believe in the first resurrection of the dead, where the spirits will be reunited with their physical bodies just as how Jesus Christ was resurrected, the last judgement day will take place after the 1,000 years of Christ's reign on earth, those whose names are written in the book of life will go to heaven, and those not found will go to hell
• Holy Trinity


  • Christianity believes that God has three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit
• Father


  The creator of the world
• Son


  Jesus Christ who was sent to save the world from sin
• Holy Spirit


  The power of God sent down to the disciples to help them spread the word of God
• The Virgin Birth of Jesus

  God chose Mary to be the Mother of Jesus Christ, Mary conceived Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ was born in a Manger in Bethlehem, Joseph, Mary's husband, served as the foster father of Jesus Christ
• Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ


  The founder of the Christian religion who preached about the kingdom of God