Sunday, November 7, 2010

PERSUASIVE WRITING

"Convince me!" is the reader's cry that lies behind all persuasive writing. Whether you are taking a position on an issue, persuading readers to take action, or proposing a solution to a vexing problem, you are arguing a point in order to persuade readers to accept your claims, with the result that change their own thinking and perhaps even their behavior and actions. In other words, even though each of these forms has a distinctive rhetorical emphasis, all three on foundational strategies for argumentation and persuasion: from making and supporting claims effectively to avoiding logical fallacies.

No comments:

Post a Comment