Persuasive Writing! Flashcards
(20 cards)
Why should you focus on writing to the audience?
If you didn’t they wouldn’t be as influenced and engaged.
Why do need to explain what you want?
To make them agree more and to make them come on to your side or believe you and to engange and inhance it that you know best.
What is the best way to open a speech or an article?
Oblique Open.
What is the main thing not to do to the audience?
You musn’t bore the audience.
What should you do with you are speaking/writing?
You should get the correct tone or the form.
What is the key thing you should do before you speek or write your persuasive writing?
You must plan and practice.
Before you persuade what must you be able to understand?
You must be able understand what you are convince other people into thinking you are correct.
For an oblique opening what is best to say in it, give an example?
Probably the best thing to put in a oblique opening would be to do anything that would engage the audience/reader straight away, one way would be to tell either a story or a joke.
Why should you include both sides of the story?
You would include both sides of the story because you can make the side you are against look very wrong and bad and you make the side you are for look the correct way.
How should you structure your senteces, give and example of how to structure it?
You should be constanly change sentece lengths because if it just long sentences all the way thorugh then in would be boring it would also be boring with constant short sentences. Constant change makes it more enganging and believable, for example: we have a very long sentence then out of know where, there is short snappy sentence.
What ways should you give your ideas?
You should give your ideas simple and then when you explain why you want this, expand and justify why you are for this choice.
What way makes your writing more believable?
Facts & statistics.
Why should you use repitition?
If you say something, you can say it again, as long as it is enganging plus intresting. The effect is that you are constanly implying the reader/audience what you think which makes them to be for your point.
Why do you use proof/facts & statistics?
You use proof/facts & statistics because the reader/audience will believe you more and it makes you sound like you know what you are doing (a bit of a proffesional).
Why should your writing never get boring?
Your writing should never be boring otherwise the audience will lose intrest and will notwant to read/listen.
What is probably the best way to get your point across?
Probably the best way to get your point across would be to be precise. You can make facts & statistics/proof uo but never go to far, you need to keep real.
Name 3 techniques to use in persuasive writing.
You could have had: Rhetorical question Random imperarives Repitition Metaphors Similes Oblique Opening Emotive Language Groupof three Exaggeration.
Why should you sound proffesional?
You sound proffesional because you will sound more believable plus the audience will be for your side.
What else should you use for your oblique opening?
You should use your imagination because your writing will be even more enganging and maybe a little funny.
Why would you use comedy in only some persuasive writing?
You would only use comedy in a article, leaflet or a speech, but only certain o speeches. The things you wouldn’t use comedy in would be at funerals, job interviews.
