Revise transactional writing purposes

You should spend the first 10 minutes of the 45 available creating a working plan showing content, structure and specific devices you intend to include in your response. You should then keep referring to your plan as you write your response.

Writing to argue and writing to persuade, regardless of the form you are asked to produce, needs to be structured around a series of key points each one designed to build on and support the others. However, the types of key points you make in writing to argue and writing to persuade are subtly different because of the intended outcome of your writing. See if you can match the types of key points you should include with the right purpose.

You are now very familiar with PEED and how to construct effective PEED paragraphs through your work on analytical, evaluative and comparative essays. However, PEED is also a useful way to structure paragraph in argumentative and persuasive writing. This is because both of these forms require a series of linked key points, supported with the use of evidence and need detailed explanations to ensure your audience understand why they should share your views and act as you suggest. Look at the paragraph from a piece of persuasive writing in the image opposite: Now match each quote from the text to the correct aspect of PEED. Children are at the heart of Plan's work. [blank_start]Point[blank_end] We sponsor a million children across the world. [blank_start]Evidence[blank_end] that means we are helping ten million people. [blank_start]Explanation[blank_end] Because, for every one child sponsored, another nine people in that community benefit. [blank_start]Development[blank_end]

The conventions of writing to argue and persuade are exactly the same which means that when you are given a task which specifies argue or persuade as the purpose you will also be writing for the other purpose as well.

When writing to argue or persuade it is important to support the key points of your argument or illustrate your cause with evidence. This can be provided in a number of ways Facts - details that that can be checked and verified Statistics - figures and data from research False-facts - opinions stated as facts of mis-represented statistics Expert opinions - comments from respected experts in the subject you are writing about. Anecdotes - your own or other people's experiences use for illustrative purposes. Because the theme and subject matter of the transactional writing tasks will always be linked to the themes and subject matter of the two non-fiction texts in Section A you can use these as a source of facts, statistics and perhaps even expert opinions and anecdotal evidence. But why is the inclusion of evidence such a key feature of writing to argue and persuade?

When we refer to the tone of a text what we mean is how that text would sound if spoken aloud; or, the tone of voice we hear in our minds as we read the words on the page. Texts that have been written to advise may adopt either a reassuring tone or a challenging tone depending on the subject matte, the intended audience and the form. Look at these examples of advice given through a problems page: Please match each description tone to the correct extract.

The choice and variety of verbs used in writing to advise plays an important role in the effectiveness of the text as a whole. The main aim of any piece of writing to advise is to get the reader or listener to act in a certain way which type of verbs would be most effective in doing this?