Mr Salles Ultimate Guide to Persuasive Writing

The easiest way to learn persuasive writing* is to read top grade persuasive writing. How many? This guide includes 11 full mark answers to past and typical exam questions. How many have you seen in school?

Next it shows you the 16 techniques you need to know. That sounds like a lot, especially if you have been taught a mnemonic like DAFOREST which includes only 8 - (Direct address, Alliteration, Facts, Opinion, Rhetorical question, Emotive language, Statistics, Tripets). But you will meet each of these new techniques dozens of times. Learning them will be easy. Repeated exposure will work - just like repeated exposure to sunlight gives you a tan. No effort involved.

You also want to know which rhetorical (persuasive) techniques carry the most marks. I'll show you. Not all of them are equal. The most important - repetition, metaphor, anecdote, contrast and cultural capital are seldom taught in most schools.

The Greeks, who invented rhetoric, used 15 different forms of repetition, each with a different name! It was their number one technique. Well, this guide will show you dozens of ways to do that too (without having to learn any of the names).

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*Many exam boards call this transactional writing.