Writing to persuade, argue and advise!
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This document provides guidance on writing to persuade, argue, and give advice for a paper 1 exam. It explains that these types of writing may be required and offers tips for each. For arguing a point of view, it suggests briefly addressing alternative views before clearly stating your own reasons. When advising, it says to organize ideas logically and adopt the right tone. Persuasive writing can use rhetorical questions, examples, stories, and emotive language while maintaining an appropriate tone for the audience.
Writing to persuade, argue and advise!
- 1. Writing to persuade, argue and advice are questions that are placed in B paper 1 Section B. On the exam day(or before) you are going to have to decide which question you are going to answer.
- 2. What are you meant to do? When you are writing to argue a point of view about something e.g. the topic abortion and you try to convince the reader that your point of view is correct. In your answer you should: -briefly refer to the other point of view -use appropriate techniques -Structure your writing Good points to use in your writing are: keep your view clear from the start, when you talk about the other party’s view point immediately dismiss it to show your view point is the best, state the reason for your view and to link your ideas use connectives.
- 3. Now advising: When you are writing to advice you are helping someone to do something or to behave in a certain way. You should: organise your ideas, be logical, adopt the right tone, offer solutions and use examples. You may not realise it but we give advice all the time for example when our mates ask us what phone they should buy. If you don't be logical in your writing your advise wont be as convincing. You adopt the right tone to suit different audiences.
- 4. Ah, now were where we? Oh yh persuading. Rhetorical When you write to persuade you try to get the question reader to do something or believe something. Alliteration The persuasive techniques that you may use are: -rhetorical questions -examples Personal -anecdotes(story’s) pronoun -emotive language A good point to use in your writing is an appropriate tone to suit the audience.