Persuasive

• Persuasive text

  influences the readers to accept an idea, to implement a proposed action, or to change their perception about a certain topic
• Argument

  it is your standpoint that you want your readers to accept or do
• 3 modes of Persuasion according to Aristotle

  1. Ethos
  2. Pathos
  3. Logos
• Ethos

  • is known as an appeal to credibility
  • firsthand experience and testimonies
• Pathos

  • refers to an appeal to readers emotions
  • feelings appeal to reader's emotions
  • making your readers feel a certain emotion
• Logos

  • is an appeal to reader's reasoning through the use of logical proofs
  • presenting facts, figures, statistics
  • uses logical reasoning or proofs
• Admittedly

  Certainly

  Consequently

  Needless to say

  nevertheless

  obviously

  truly

  undoubtedly