This document discusses persuasive writing. Persuasive writing aims to convince the reader of a particular viewpoint. It is a form of debate that can be engaging for students. Persuasive writing is important as it allows students to express their views, research topics they care about, and improve skills like different writing styles, structure, research, forming logical arguments. Persuasive writing can be found in advertisements, newspapers, essays, speeches, petitions, political cartoons, blogs, social media, and more. The document provides examples of persuasive writing forms and suggests one way to organize a persuasive piece.

1. Persuasive
Writing
PERSUASIVE-making you want to do or believe a particular thing

2. What is persuasive writing?
Persuasive writing is a written form of an oral debate
and can be a fun and interesting style of writing for
students.
It is used to convince or persuade a reader that
the writer’s point of view or (opinion) of a topic or
cause is correct.

3. Why is persuasive
writing important?
• It is a wonderful means of expressing their views about a subject.
• It is a way to tap into what students are passionate
• It gives them the opportunity to do research on subjects that they
are interested in.
• This helps students be more involved in their class work.
• It helps students improve skills such as different styles of writing,
writing structure, doing research, and forming evidence
• based logical conclusions, opinions and arguments.

4. Where do you
find Persuasive
Writing?
• In advertisements to get the
reader to buy a product
• In newspapers, magazines, essays
and other texts to get the reader
to accept a point of view
• In speeches, petitions, and political
cartoons to convince readers to
believe a certain political viewpoint
• On blogs, webpages, and social
media sites to convince the reader
to subscribe to or follow the author

5. Examples of Persuasive Writing
• Editorials
• Essays
• Advertisemen
ts
• Speeches
• Petitions
• Political
Cartoons
• Editorial
Letters
• Blogs
• Tweets
• Facebook
• Advice
Columns

6. Organization and Layout
Here is one way that you could organize your persuasive writing: