Persuasive writing lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Lesson 1

In class today:

Persuasion

Come up with a situation in your life in which you could use persuasive writing. Answer in English.

More on persuasive writing

In the next slides, you will learn more about how to write persuasively.

Some of it will be repetition of what you learned in the video earlier. But repetition is important in learning AND in persuasive writing!

Persuasive letter: example

What aspects of persuasive writing that were mentioned earlier this lesson can you recognize in the text on the following slides?

Think of words, sentences, structure, content.

What aspects did you recognize in this text?

Now you (hopefully) know what persuasive writing is :)

Persuasive writing practice

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Do it yourself

Step 1: Choose a writing prompt 

Step 2: Think of arguments for your prompt 

Step 3: Find infromation online to suppurt your argument 

Step 5: Write a 250-500 word essay