Enhancing Persuasive Writing Skills with Varied Sentence Openers
the art of persuasive writing by mastering the use of diverse sentence openers to engage readers effectively. Uncover techniques to write compellingly and persuasively through the manipulation of sentence structures and vocabulary. Enhance your ability to communicate clearly, adapt tone and style, and organize information strategically for maximum impact.
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Learning Objective: To understand how to vary openings to sentences. Learning Outcome: To write persuasively using a variety of sentence openers.
Assessment Objectives AO5 and AO6 Assessment Objective What the exam board say What it means Communicate clearly, effectively and imaginatively, selecting and adapting tone, style and register for different forms, purposes and audiences. - Organize information and ideas, using structural and grammatical features to support coherence and cohesion of texts Clear understanding of audience, why you are writing and the form you are writing. Organized paragraphs for effect. Detailed information in paragraphs. AO5 Ambitious words and different sentence structures are used confidently. Spelling is accurate and punctuation is accurate, controlled and sophisticated. Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect with accurate spelling and punctuation AO6
Cristiano Ronaldo earns 265, 000 per week. His annual salary is approximately 15,334,867. He plays football for Real Madrid. Is this fair? The average British soldier earns 28,000 per year. It will take the soldier 547 years to earn Ronaldo s annual wage. The average British GP earns 55,000 per year. It will take the GP 279 years to earn Ronaldo s annual wage .
Metaphor start Triple noun colon Upgrade your Sentence! Teenagers are spoiled monsters. Xboxes, iPhones, Canada Goose jackets: today s teenagers are completely spoiled. Double adjective start Adverb comma Teenagers are spoiled. Brattish and impolite, today s teenagers are spoiled rotten. Truthfully, teenagers today are more spoiled than ever. it isn t/it is More, more, more Verb beginning Tackling the issue isn t optional; it is our duty to ensure that we address the problem of spoiled teenagers. The more we ignore the issue of spoiled teenagers, the more we contribute to the problem and the more serious the problem becomes. Ignoring the problem of spoiled teenagers is not going to solve anything. Your turn: upgrade this sentence: Footballers are overpaid.
Metaphor start Triple noun colon Upgrade your Sentence! Double adjective start Adverb comma Footballers are overpaid. It isn t/it is More, more, more Verb beginning Your turn: upgrade this sentence: Footballers are overpaid.
Footballers are massively overpaid; their salaries would be better spent on healthcare and education. You will now write a paragraph arguing FOR this opinion. Task: Slow writing your first paragraph: 1. Use the slow writing method to write your first paragraph jointly. Sentence 1: State your first persuasive point. Begin with I believe Sentence 2: Provide evidence to support your point. Use an opinion that sounds like a fact. Begin with It is well-known that Sentence 3: Use a short sentence rhetorical question. Sentence 4: Explain consequences, use an it is/ it isn t sentence and a semi colon to link two ideas. Sentence 5: End your paragraph with a triple noun colon sentence that sums up the point of the paragraph. CHALLENGE: Can you develop a formula for slow writing your second paragraph? How to Slow Write: Split your page like this: Write your paragraph following the instructions in the bigger section.
Review my learning pyramid Review and Reflect Self Assess: Using the guidance below, highlight and annotate within the narrow section of your page what you have written and how effective you think it is: Sentence 1: State your first persuasive point. Begin with I believe Sentence 2: Provide evidence to support your point. Use an opinion that sounds like a fact. Begin with It is well- known that Sentence 3: Use a short sentence rhetorical question. Sentence 4: Explain consequences, use an it is/ it isn t sentence and a semi colon to link two ideas. Sentence 5: End your paragraph with a triple noun colon sentence that sums up the point of the paragraph
Upgrade this sentence! Metaphor start Triple noun colon Double adjective start Adverb comma Footballers are overpaid. It isn t/it is More, more, more Verb beginning
