Just for you to study about paragraphs and to know the characteristic of a fact and opinion persuasive paragraph.

1. Writing persuasive and facts and opinion paragraphs
By: Valentina Pardo
Puerto Montt 2015

2. Paragraph
 Group of sentences about one idea (topic).
 A good paragraph have at least three supporting
sentences.
 The supporting sentences make up the body of
the paragraph.
 Use a variety of details to develop the topic
sentence depending of what type of paragraph are
you writing about.
 Unnecessary details distract the reader and
weaken your message.

3. Basic structure of a paragraph
TOPIC
TOPIC
SENTENCE
SUPPORTING
SENTENCES
CONCLUDING
SENTENCE
Re state the topic
sentence using
other words

4. Audience
 The person, type of person, or group of people
you are writing to.
 After you are clear about your audience you
should know which tone, details and purpose use.
 Anticipate audience pushbacks, reactions and
questions.

5. Purpose
 What you want your audience think or feel about
your topic.
 Think and feel relate closely to the main idea and
tells the readers why your main idea or topic
matters.
 The do is also important because is what you
expect your reader to do.

6. Persuasive writing
 Convince people about a single topic.
 Provoke different kind of emotions through
your writing.
 Make the first sentence clear enough to
capture the reader’s attention.

7. Facts and opinion
 We should be able to recognize the difference
between facts and opinions.
 Facts use reasons and evidence
 A fact can be proven right or wrong.
 Opinion is a personal perspective about
something/someone or anything and can’t be
proven.

8. Paragraph
Group of
sentence about
one topic.
One common style
of paragraph is the
PERSUASIVE.
To support the
persuasive
paragraph we use
FACTS AND
OPINIONS
FACTS can be
proven,
OPINIONS can’t
because are
personal
perspectives
about the topic.