Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Unusual Friendly Letters: Persuasive Writing Techniques
In this lesson, students will use active voice in regards to persuasion. Lesson incorporates the A R.A.F.T. strategy: role, audience, format, topic.
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Jiskha: Persuasive Techniques
Short definitions of techniques that persuade: bandwagon, glittering generality, and more.
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Hamilton: Essentials of Effective Persuasive Essays
This resource provides good insight on how to structure a well organized effective persuasive essay.
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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Common Persuasive Techniques [Pdf]
View a slide presentation explaining what persuasive techniques are and why they are used. Then learn about six different persuasive techniques used in advertising and see examples of advertisements utilizing some of the techniques....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Don't Eat Me Monologues
In this lesson, students will create a 5-part (introduction, 3 ideas, conclusion) monologue incorporating persuasive techniques and strong word choice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages
A lesson plan made for students to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Persuasive Strategies and Tuck Everlasting
This lesson is a persuasive strategy lesson plan for Tuck Everlasting. It allows the student to incorporate technology in the development of an original thirty-second commercial.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creative Convincing
In this lesson, students will create a friendly letter taking on the persona and voice of a persuasive animal.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What's Your Fifth Element?
In this lesson students will write persuasively in regards to a 21st century object.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Character Credo Poems
Build your student's vocabulary, word choice and voice by asking them to write from the perspective of a particular character. Lesson plan incorporates the R.A.F.T.S. strategy: role, audience, format, topic and strong verb.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Selling Our Nation's Symbols on Ebay!
Students will write for a specific purpose in this cross-curricular lesson regarding our nation's landmarks and symbols.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Analyzing Famous Speeches as Arguments
This multi-session lesson features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Students will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Gettysburg Address [Pdf]
"The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln is one page, non-fiction speech given at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 1963. It is followed by an assignment asking students to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic. Students develop an...
Other
Disinfopedia: Propaganda Techniques
This site from the Center for Media & Democracy provides a brief discussion of propaganda techniques followed by a lengthy list of various specific kinds of propaganda. Also includes "Recommended Books" and "External links" sections....
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
Contains plans for four lessons that teach about the fallacies used in advertising such as bandwagon appeal, hasty generalizations, red herrings, emotional appeals, and more. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...
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English 100: Persuasive Essay
This tutorial provides writing instructions and ideas to help the student in preparing a persuasive essay.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: John F. Kennedy's Remarks, Berlin [Pdf]
"John F. Kennedy: Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin" is a one page persuasive speech delivered by JFK on June 26, 1963. In it he commended West Germany in its efforts to have a democratic government and berated the Communists...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Frederick Douglass [Pdf]
"Frederick Douglass on Women's Suffrage," a one page, non-fiction, reading passage, is an excerpt from a persuasive speech delivered by Frederick Douglass to the International Council of Women in Washington, D.C., April 1888 in support...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Tools of Persuasion [Pdf]
A slide presentation giving an explanation and example of nine different persuasive techniques including appeal to emotion, appeal to authority, urgency, and more.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Teaching Resource: Effective Persuasion: Power Point
A PowerPoint presentation introducing the elements of effective persuasive writing, including samples of various techniques.
Education Development Center
Tune in to Learning: Truth in Advertising
Interactive lesson and activities for learning to look critically at the persuasive techniques of advertisements promoting political candidates and products.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Rhetorical Landscape
This is an introduction to a unit on the use of rhetoric in speaking or writing to persuade an audience to the desired way of thinking or action. If focuses on rhetorical techniques and the three audience appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Lit and Comp: Rationalism:thomas Jefferson
This lesson focuses on the historical background of Thomas Jefferson including his writings and his political career. It also provides a link to "Declaration of Independence" and the "Discovery Education Video: Thomas Jefferson."...