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Better essays and techniques part 3
1. Better Essays and
Persuasive Techniques
by Dr Jennifer Minter
Part Three: Year 9
Chapter 4: Persuasive Text
Types
Chapter 5: Writing Better
Sentences
2. Part 3: Year 9
Chapters 4: Persuasive text types
and
Chapter 5: Writing Better Sentences
Students will identify (and
discuss in a fluent manner) a
range of persuasive and
reasoning techniques.
Students will use a variety of
techniques to write different
persuasive texts.
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 77-94.
3. Part 3: Exercises
Exercises 33, p. 79
Exercise 35, p. 84
Exercise 36, p. 87
Plus downloadable
supplementary exercises to
help students identify a range
of persuasive/reasoning
techniques.
(See e-book 3: fillable tables)
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 77-94.
4. Part 3: Aims
Students will use their knowledge of
persuasive and reasoning strategies
to write a variety of text types.
Students will analyse a variety of
texts, p. 84 and p. 86 and write
a short essay.
Students will demonstrate a
sophisticated use of analytical
vocabulary and an ability to write
sentences with an analytical focus.
(See Presentation: essay-writing Part 1)
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 77-94.
5. Persuasive text types
• an editorial;
• an opinion article for a
newspaper, magazine, website or newsletter;
• a “letter” to the editor or a blog/(Your Say
comment);
• an “open letter” from a public spokesperson;
• an editor’s comment or an interview; and
• a speech or presentation.
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 77-94.
6. Features of persuasive texts
• Follow the guidelines in this chapter
and write your own editorial, feature
article and letter to the Editor. You may
draw upon the ideas expressed in the
opinion pieces you have analysed in
previous chapters, you may use the
information on “Should it be compulsory
for parents to vaccinate children” (p. 89),
or research one of your own.
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 77-94.
7. Jim says:
“I am often marked down in
English because my
teacher says that my
expression is unclear or
clumsy. I thought ideas
were the thing that
mattered.”
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 97-111.
8. Dear Jim
• “This is a very common problem and you
are by no means alone. Your teacher is
drawing your attention to the fact that
there is a link between good expression
and good ideas/clear thought processes.
• If you are consistently losing marks in
English, it is often because you have
awkward phrases/expression. If the
entire essay consists of clumsy, clunky
grammar, it is hard to achieve an A.”
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 97-111.
9. Chapter 5:
Writing Better Sentences
• Sentences are the building
blocks of each of your
paragraphs.
• If words and phrases are put
together in a muddled way, the
sentence, and hence your
message, will be unclear.
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 97-111.
11. Grammar Tips
• Follow the grammar tips
relating to common grammatical
errors such as:
• The clause lacks a subject.
• The verb lacks an object.
• The tenses are incorrect.
• The subject-verb agreements are incorrect.
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 97-111.
12. Other grammar tips
• The pronoun must clearly relate
to the previous noun or pronoun.
• The phrase is “hanging”. It does not clearly
relate to the subject/object.
• The relative pronoun is incorrect.
• The (dependent) clause cannot “stand
alone”.
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 97-111.
13. A clause must have a subject
• Sally writes: “Hence, showing
the reader that the senator does not
take her profession seriously.”
• This sentence does not have a grammatical
subject.
• Correction: “Hence, the author shows the
reader that the senator does not take her
profession seriously.”
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 97-111.
14. Be careful with listing devices
• Kate writes: “In Macbeth, we see Macbeth’s
struggle for power and upholding this power.”
• Kate uses a listing device: in this case two phrases
are joined by “and”. The “struggle for power” is a
noun phrase and “upholding this power” is a verb
phrase.
• If sharing a grammatical subject, we cannot join
two different parts of speech with “and”.
Better Essays and Persuasive Techniques: pp. 97-111.
15. Spot the error
• The author juxtaposes how dangerous the fireworks can be by
giving examples of Carlos’s death.
• This implies that illegal fireworks should be monitored and
encourages the use of fireworks in celebratory events.
• Evidence such as the reference from the past about a stolen child
and if she had this product we would have found her.
• The author also uses emotive connotations such as “anxiously
searching”.
• Alliteration such as “care and concern”, this focuses on the
attitude of the parents.
• With the comparison of a well know pet, it demonstrates the
unnecessary actions.
See Writing Better Sentences: E-book 5 (plus responses)
