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  • persuasive writing convinces readers to believe an idea and to perform action
  • present strong evidence - evidence in the form of facts, statistics, credibility, and statements
  • concrete, relevant, and reasonable examples - enhances writer's ideas or opinion
  • accurate, current, and balanced information - adds credibility of persuasive writing
  • there are 3 modes of persuasion
  • the 3 modes of persuasion was introduced by Aristotle
  • the three modes are ethos, logos, pathos
  • pathos - appeals to emotions
  • logos - appeals to logic and reason
  • the six common fallacies are: ad hominem, fault cause and effect, hasty generalization, false analogy, either/or reasoning, and circular reasoning
  • ad hominem - attacks the person who makes an opposing point
  • faulty cause and effet - two events are related but sounds not right
  • either/or reasoning - provides reader with two options to simplify problem
  • hasty generalization - drawing conclusions from an experience
  • false analogy - comparing but misleading
  • circular reasoning - states thesis as its proof but reasoning is repeated
  • the frequently used sources for persuasion are: facts, statistics, judgement, and testimony
  • facts - makes arguments solid
  • statistics - arguments but with numbers
  • judgement - assumptions based on facts
  • testimony - eye witness or expert's opinion
  • paragraph - group of sentences
  • a good paragraph has: main idea, topic sentence, supporting details
  • main idea - main point / central idea in a paragraph
  • cohesion - refers to the unity of ideas in a paragraph
  • coherence - quality of being logical and well-organized
  • in coherence, transitional devices are used to connect words.
  • there are 5 types of logical patterns in coherence
  • chronological order - sequence of events, writer tells reader what happens first, second, third, etc.
  • spatial order - details are arranged according to the scene being described (ex. describing a place)
  • order of importance - details are arranged from least to most important
  • compare and contrast - details are arranged according to two or more things are similar to and different from another
  • topical order - COMMONLY USED FORMAT. details are arranged according to how different subtopics fall within a larger category