Chapter 4: Persuasive Text Types

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Chapter 4 covers the reasoning and persuasive features of a variety of persuasive text types: editorials, opinion articles, letters to the editor, Your Say comments, and speeches. In this Chapter, you will learn to identify the various features of persuasive texts

Please work through the exercises. Please see our Exercise Study Pages.

1. Editorials: Please see Some Schools fail the test: Exercise 33, p. 79
2. Letters: Please See Give the puppies a chance, Exercise 35, p. 84
3. Blogs and Your Say Comments: Please See Environment Watch, Exercise 36, p. 87
4. For Sample Persuasive Text types/Speeches: Vaccination, Please see Comments and Facts, p. 89

PLUS: 

1. Turn to page 89: Should parents vaccinate their children. Use this information to write a speech or an opinion piece.
2. See a sample: parents should vaccinate their children.

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