Analyze how
persuasion is
used in daily
life by making
short and
convincing
speches
Strategy in Practice
Listen to and
analyze various
persuasive
speeches and
writings in the
media searching
for words,
phrases and
other elements
that are use to
persuade.
Decompose
the
elements of
persuasive
speech or
writing.
Analyze people's
current beliefs
and their
arguments
about an issue,
and convince
them with
counterarguments.
Find authentic
opportunities to
write to your
familiy or the
community.
Receive
peer
review.
Practice
differentiating
fact
and
opinion
from
articles.
Ananlize how
community
discussion on an
issue can lead to
alternative positions
that take different
people’s needs into
account
Participate in
online role-play,
respond to
YouTube videos
or blogs. Or
create your onw
website to
debate an issue
with a nroader
audience
Five-Step Process
1. Prewrite
Choose a position,
undestand the
audience,
research, select
the evidence, and
do the outline.
2. Draft
Provide a "hooking"
introduction, a clear
thesis, strong
evidence in the body
paragraphs, define
terms and at the end
encourage the reader
to take a position or
action.
3. Revising
Make sure the
postion is firm,
evidence is
relevant, the
opposite view
was presented
ans refuted, and
if the conlcusion
encourages the
reader.
4. Ediiting
Proofread,
correct
grammar and
mechanics, as
well as have a
peer review.