Social Writing Purpose: To Persuade
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Social Purpose Writing to Persuade FRAMEWORK Thesis • State what you want or believe Assertions/Arguments • Arguments for and the supporting evidence • What you think and why • Arguments against Conclusion • Re-state your position • Request the action you want taken Forms that persuade expositions, advertisements, editorials, job applications LANGUAGE FEATURES • Nouns and pronouns are generalized • Technical terms • Generally timeless present • Frequent use of passives • Verbs are often changed into nouns • Signal words • Formal objective styles, i.e. first person pronouns are not generally appropriate, personal opinions are disguised as facts. • Emotive but impersonal language
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Social PurposeWriting to Persuade
FRAMEWORKThesis• State what you want or believeAssertions/Arguments• Arguments for and the supporting evidence• What you think and why• Arguments againstConclusion• Re-state your position• Request the action you want taken
Forms that persuade expositions, advertisements,
editorials, job applications
LANGUAGE FEATURES• Nouns and pronouns are generalized• Technical terms• Generally timeless present• Frequent use of passives• Verbs are often changed into nouns• Signal words• Formal objective styles, i.e. first person pronouns
are not generally appropriate, personal opinions are disguised as facts.
• Emotive but impersonal language
