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[fandagles_029]

hi everyone, i haven't written a persuasive piece in a really long time and now I'm confused as to how i should structure it and what to include etc. so if anyone has ANY tips or examples they can give me that would be so helpful and i would literally be forever grateful :')

 

[jimmysmith560]

A persuasive text aims to convince the reader/audience of a particular idea or position regarding a specific topic. This means that as a starting point, you should determine the main argument/position that you will adopt in your persuasive piece. Ideally, you should state your central argument at the beginning of your piece.

This brings us to the structure of your persuasive piece. Once you finish introducing the topic and your main position, you can then move on to the body of your piece. This is where you will be able to present and explain your main points in depth, as well as make effective use of relevant techniques (here, the texts that you study would be useful). Importantly, you should also determine the type of arguments that you will be making in your body paragraphs. For instance, you may choose to argue based on logic (rational arguments), or you could present arguments to trigger an emotional response from the reader/audience (emotional argument). You should ensure that this is consistent across the three body paragraphs that you write (which I believe is also the recommended number of body paragraphs). Further, using subsequent body paragraphs to expand on arguments presented can also emphasise consistency, creating a better flow of writing and a higher quality persuasive piece overall.

When the body of your piece is complete, you may include a concluding paragraph to briefly summarise your central argument as well as the main points that you made in your persuasive piece.

I hope this helps!

 

[fandagles_029]

A persuasive text aims to convince the reader/audience of a particular idea or position regarding a specific topic. This means that as a starting point, you should determine the main argument/position that you will adopt in your persuasive piece. Ideally, you should state your central argument at the beginning of your piece.

This brings us to the structure of your persuasive piece. Once you finish introducing the topic and your main position, you can then move on to the body of your piece. This is where you will be able to present and explain your main points in depth, as well as make effective use of relevant techniques (here, the texts that you study would be useful). Importantly, you should also determine the type of arguments that you will be making in your body paragraphs. For instance, you may choose to argue based on logic (rational arguments), or you could present arguments to trigger an emotional response from the reader/audience (emotional argument). You should ensure that this is consistent across the three body paragraphs that you write (which I believe is also the recommended number of body paragraphs). Further, using subsequent body paragraphs to expand on arguments presented can also emphasise consistency, creating a better flow of writing and a higher quality persuasive piece overall.

When the body of your piece is complete, you may include a concluding paragraph to briefly summarise your central argument as well as the main points that you made in your persuasive piece.

I hope this helps!

Thank you so much for your advice it was super helpful! I'm just struggling to interpret my stimulus which is 'Jude hated the elderly. She always had, even as a child, when other children adored their grandparents, flinging themselves at their soft unsteady bodies. All her life the elderly had disgusted her; it was their patchy skin, their need, their capacity to see things in you. The decay inside their secret old mouths. She would never become one of them - The Weekend by Charlotte Wood'. I had originally wrote about devaluing aging but apparently that's not what this is about, do you have any idea's on what i could possibly write on?

 

[jimmysmith560]

Thank you so much for your advice it was super helpful! I'm just struggling to interpret my stimulus which is 'Jude hated the elderly. She always had, even as a child, when other children adored their grandparents, flinging themselves at their soft unsteady bodies. All her life the elderly had disgusted her; it was their patchy skin, their need, their capacity to see things in you. The decay inside their secret old mouths. She would never become one of them - The Weekend by Charlotte Wood'. I had originally wrote about devaluing aging but apparently that's not what this is about, do you have any idea's on what i could possibly write on?

No worries!

Upon reading this stimulus for the first time, I can definitely understand your reasoning. However, it is quite the opposite, as emphasis is placed on ageing rather than devaluing it. Having done some research on "The Weekend" and its author, the text's resonant theme is mortality. With this in mind, reading the stimulus again will result in a different interpretation. Specifically, the descriptive language used and "She would never become one of them" indicates Jude's awareness of her own mortality.

Consequently, it seems that your persuasive piece will likely need to cover mortality instead of devaluing ageing.

 

[jimmysmith560]

So we have an assessment coming up where we do a mod B essay in class (i’ll ignore that for now) and Mod C creative at home. the mod C stimulus is this:
Part 2: Module C – Craft of Writing – Creative Response and Reflection
The primary concern of good text is to create an emotional response in the reader.
Create a piece of writing, with reference to the above statement, that reflects the techniques of the composers we have studied through Module C – George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language and Noel Pearson’s Eulogy for Gough Whitlam.
Once you have created your piece of writing, you must submit an annotation of the piece, detailing the techniques used and the challenges (and/or successes) of the writing process.

Our teacher encouraged us to do an imaginative piece (because apparently we collectively suck at discursive) and either create a poem/short story that makes the reader have an emotional responses or make the story about a specific emotional response. the problem is… idk how to do that. how do i figure out how to make people emotional?? IDK. like first i gotta figure out what emotion i want to encourage, then i gotta figure out the story - making sure it’s possible to achieve that emotion - then i gotta our how to actually write the story in a way that is nice but also gets that emotional response but not in a cliche way IDK ITS TOO HARD I CANT DO IT AND I NEED HELP BUT MY TEACHER IS GOING ON HOLIDAY SOON AND WILL BE NO HELP. i will love anyone who helps me in any way shape or form im desperate. thank you for reading

In determining the emotion that you aim to elicit from your reader, you may wish to consider your character/personality. If you are naturally a humourous or optimistic person, you could write an imaginative piece that covers certain events experienced by the main character(s) which can make readers have a positive emotional response (such as happiness, laughter or hope). On the other hand, if you are interested in obscurity or melancholy, you could write an imaginative piece covering certain events experienced by the main character(s), although here, the emotional response from readers would be a negative one (such as sadness, pity, sympathy or despair).

Once you have identified the emotion that you want to focus on, you can refer to the texts that you studied to ensure that you have thorough knowledge and understanding of the techniques used by their respective authors. Subsequently, you can incorporate the same techniques as well as other techniques in a manner that reflects that of the authors (as mentioned in your task description). Lastly, it would be good to seek feedback. While your teacher is not available, there may be other people willing to provide feedback, which includes adopting a reader's perspective and assessing the extent to which you were able to emphasise your chosen emotion.

I hope this helps!