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Persuasive Writing


In this file you will learn about and practice writing persuasive paragraphs. Persuasive paragraphs are one of the four basic types of paragraphs: descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive. Review the definitions below.

Four Types of Paragraphs

1. Descriptive: Descriptive writing contains sentences that work together to present a single, clear picture of a person, place, thing, or idea. Often authors use their senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste) in writing a description.

2. Narrative: Narrative writing tells a story. The author creates a story for the reader by telling about a series of events in the order in which they happened.

3. Expository: Factual writing explains ideas, gives facts, provides directions, or describes a process. Expository writing is used when you wish to present or explain facts or ideas.

4. Persuasive: Persuasive writing tries to get the reader to agree with the writer about the paragraph's topic, which is usually an opinion. The writer expresses an opinion and, using information and arguments, attempts to convince the reader that the opinion is correct.

As you continue to write, you will often use more than one of these types of writing in one paragraph. For now, however, we have kept them separate.

In this file you will practice writing persuasive paragraphs.


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Persuasive Writing presents arguments to try to persuade the reader to agree with the writer.

Read the outlined information below, and then write a persuasive paragraph about the topic.

Remember to use all the strategies for paragraph writing that you have learned. Make sure your paragraph is interesting and that it reflects your own words, not just the words in the outline.

The fly swatter works much better than the hand for swatting flies.

a. A fly's body is covered with tactile hairs sensitive to air movement.
b. The movement of the hand creates air movements.
c. The fly swatter has many holes through which the air moves.

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Rewrite/Edit

Go back through your paragraphs and make sure you have all of the following:

1) a topic sentence that is specific and not too broad

2) supporting sentences that develop, explain, and support the topic sentence

3) a summary or concluding sentence which holds the paragraph together by restating the main idea or drawing a conclusion


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