Lesson 5: More Kinds of Writing
Persuasive Writing
Persuasive writing is easy because children are naturally always trying to convince grownups of something - what story to read, staying up longer, why they should be allowed to go to the mall! That is the basis for persuasive writing.
To write a good persuasive essay, you need to do more than just say why you think you should be able to do something or get something. You also need to thing about both sides of an argument. When you do that, you can "argue" convincingly, but not in a negative way.
Good examples of persuasion are advertisements, letters to the editor, and "arguments" told from a certain point of view. A debate is also a form of persuasive writing and speaking.
More on persuasive writing can be found here: http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/17372...
