ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING

Writing persuasive and facts and opinion paragraphs

By: Valentina PardoPuerto Montt 2015

Paragraph Group of sentences about one idea (topic). A good paragraph have at least three supporting

sentences. The supporting sentences make up the body of

the paragraph. Use a variety of details to develop the topic

sentence depending of what type of paragraph are you writing about.

Unnecessary details distract the reader and weaken your message.

Basic structure of a paragraphTOPIC

TOPIC SENTENCE

SUPPORTING SENTENCES

CONCLUDING SENTENCE

Re state the topic sentence using other words

Audience The person, type of person, or group of people

you are writing to. After you are clear about your audience you

should know which tone, details and purpose use. Anticipate audience pushbacks, reactions and

questions.

Purpose What you want your audience think or feel about

your topic. Think and feel relate closely to the main idea and

tells the readers why your main idea or topic matters.

The do is also important because is what you expect your reader to do.

Persuasive writing Convince people about a single topic. Provoke different kind of emotions through

your writing. Make the first sentence clear enough to

capture the reader’s attention.

Facts and opinion We should be able to recognize the difference

between facts and opinions. Facts use reasons and evidence A fact can be proven right or wrong. Opinion is a personal perspective about

something/someone or anything and can’t be proven.

Paragraph

Group of sentence about

one topic.

One common style of paragraph is the

PERSUASIVE.

To support the persuasive

paragraph we use FACTS AND OPINIONS

FACTS can be proven,

OPINIONS can’t because are

personal perspectives

about the topic.