How to Teach Persuasive Writing

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Laura from youngwritersworkshops.com and I'm going to talk about how to teach persuasive writing. Persuasive writing is a format where students will really need to have a point of view, so they'll choose a point of view, and then they'll also need to defend it. One of the first steps can be for them to brainstorm a list of all the reasons that they hold this point of view. So, it can be a way for them to really think about what it is that they're trying to persuade someone of, and all they're all the reasons that they believe it. At the same time, they'll want to have a a an argument against it that they present and then take that argument down, dismantle that argument by giving reasons why it is invalid. So they have to think about their own point, and then they also have to think about thee opposing point and then argue against that opposing point. Usually there's a paragraph for each of the reasons that this that they're persuasive point of is true, so they might need to have several, this might be a four paragraph essay, depending on thee age of thee student, and each of those paragraphs will be organized around a specific point within their point of view that they're persuading towards. One paragraph might refute one or more arguments against their point, and then the concluding paragraph will wrap up, again, repeating their point of view, and why it's valid, and conclude the whole essay in that way. So those are some ideas about how to teach persuasive writing."