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00:15	Hi . Good afternoon and welcome to the third session
00:17	of the right Better Workshop as we've been discussing ,
00:20	learning how to expand your basic story ideas is an
00:24	important component in taking writing from regular to extraordinary .
00:28	Through these sessions , we've been focusing on four key
00:31	specific areas that will help you learn to expand any
00:34	fiction or narrative writing . So you will feel confident
00:38	you're writing the best you can . We began this
00:40	story expansion in the first session by focusing on learning
00:43	to describe character emotions and then in the second session
00:46	, by focusing on setting today we are going to
00:49	talk about persuasion . My name is Maurice Adams ,
00:53	and I'm the director of curriculum for Lou Most learning
00:56	. I'll be serving as the host for our time
00:58	today , and it's my pleasure to introduce our presenter
01:00	for the day . Mr George Smith , who works
01:03	as a consultant with the most money . He is
01:05	an editor and administrator and is the author of The
01:08	Right Better Book We will be referring to throughout each
01:10	session . He has conducted these workshops at a number
01:14	of schools , and we are so privileged to have
01:16	him join us today . But before I pass this
01:19	on to Mr Smith . I do have a couple
01:20	of housekeeping tasks to mention during the presentation . All
01:24	lines will be needed . This allows others the best
01:27	opportunity to hear the presentation . However , we want
01:31	active participation . So at times we will unused the
01:35	line So all can offer responses to an interesting question
01:38	. And at any point in the presentation , you
01:41	can type a question into the chat or use the
01:43	race . The hand feature . At the end of
01:46	the presentation today , we will have some time for
01:48	questions and answers . Mr . Smith and I will
01:50	answer as many questions as possible during that time .
01:54	So at this point , please go ahead , Mr
01:55	Smith . Okay . Thank you , Mrs Adams .
01:58	And hello , young authors . And welcome this Webinar
02:02	is about persuasion . And what it will teach you
02:05	is how to present effective written arguments what we call
02:10	arguments , uh , to persuade the readers in your
02:14	target audience to accept your point of view or your
02:18	opinions and also to take any actions that you recommend
02:25	. There are a couple of purposes of why you
02:28	would undertake persuasive writing . The first is to persuade
02:33	your readers to agree with your point of view or
02:37	your opinion , So you want to persuade them to
02:41	agree with the point of view that you are raising
02:43	and try to convince them to go along with you
02:46	. There's also a second purpose to motivate your readers
02:51	to take any actions that you are recommending . Now
02:55	, when you're writing something to persuade people , there
02:58	, may or may not be actions that you want
03:00	them to take . But if there are , that
03:02	could be one of the purposes one of the two
03:04	purposes of your persuasive writing . So now we know
03:09	the purposes . I'd like to introduce you to the
03:12	persuasive writing process . It begins with selecting a topic
03:17	. Of course you have to . You would guess
03:19	that that you have to pick a topic that you're
03:20	going to write about to persuade people . So that
03:23	is really the first step , and I don't know
03:28	you all personally . So I had to kind of
03:30	guess on the topic for this webinar that all of
03:33	you might be interested in . Choosing a topic is
03:36	very important , and you'll be most convincing and persuasive
03:40	if you pick a topic that you feel strongly about
03:44	. So I took a chance and I selected this
03:47	one . And it is fictitious . But it can
03:51	happen anywhere . Really . Your school principal has proposed
03:55	a policy that would not allow students to bring their
03:58	cell phones , ipads or tablets to school . He
04:02	is looking for feedback . Well , together we will
04:06	figure out how to write a statement persuading your target
04:10	audience . And we have to pick who that target
04:12	audiences to accept your point of view about this proposed
04:15	policy . So , in the writing , uh ,
04:19	in the writing process , we've already taken the first
04:22	step . We've selected a topic . Does anyone want
04:26	to guess after you select the topic ? What do
04:28	you think we need to do next in the persuasive
04:31	writing process ? So anybody like to speak up and
04:34	and take a guess at what we should do after
04:37	we select the topic ? And again to do this
04:40	, you can just hit the raise your hands featured
04:42	and see if you have an answer for our next
04:44	step in the process . Yeah . All right .
04:50	I'm gonna go ahead and your line , and you
04:52	can share your answer pretty right . Thanks . Nick
05:02	. Pre , right ? Uh , anybody else have
05:09	any other ideas ? How about you ? Drafty rafting
05:18	. Okay , good . Yes . Let's see what
05:21	Mr Smith says . Okay , I'm not sure I
05:24	heard the very first person . Mrs . Adams ,
05:27	do you ? Did you hear the very first answer
05:29	? Not here , all of it . But I
05:31	think they were pretty close on on target . Okay
05:35	, I did hear drafting , which I think would
05:38	mean the beginning of the writing process . Actually ,
05:42	that is I'm going to get one more chance for
05:45	the first one because we didn't hear that . Okay
05:48	, go ahead . And sandals , I hope .
05:50	Pre writing free riding . Okay . Pretty close .
05:56	Let's see what Mr Smith says . Yeah , Yeah
05:59	, these are These are good answers . And we
06:01	will eventually get around to doing that . But not
06:04	quite so fast . After you pick the topic ,
06:07	the very next thing you should do is decide who
06:09	your target audiences . In other words , in this
06:13	case , where the principal is asking for feedback ,
06:15	you could be writing to persuade your fellow students you
06:19	could be writing to teachers . You could be right
06:21	in your parents in order to get them to take
06:23	some action . You could be writing directly to the
06:26	principal . Or you could be writing to the Board
06:27	of Education . So after you pick your topic ,
06:30	you really have to pick your target audience . And
06:34	I made a decision for you here . I'm going
06:36	to pretend that you want to write to some of
06:38	your fellow students to give them information to convince them
06:42	to take some action along with you . So I
06:45	could have picked the parents of the principle of the
06:47	teachers or someone else . But I just took a
06:49	guess . And I'm going to pretend that we're going
06:51	to be writing to your fellow students . So this
06:54	is the very next step Before you can begin to
06:55	right after you select your topic , you have to
06:58	decide who your audience is . Okay , Now we're
07:02	still not ready to write yet . There's gonna be
07:04	another step that we take . Does anybody want to
07:06	try to guess what you do after you ? You
07:08	pick your topic , you pick your audience . What
07:11	do you think you have to do next ? Before
07:13	you start to write anybody wanna take a guess ?
07:16	And remember , you can think about what our topic
07:18	is . Our topic is that the principal has decided
07:21	you cannot bring your ipads and your iPhones or any
07:25	other smartphone devices to school . So you have to
07:28	decide what your you've been given your topic . Now
07:32	you have your audience . Now you need to decide
07:34	what you think is next . Okay , How about
07:36	you ? Um , you have to decide what your
07:40	paragraphs will be about . Maybe what your paragraphs will
07:44	be about . Does anybody else have any other ideas
07:51	? Okay , Mr Smith . Okay . Yes .
07:54	I'm going to call it content what the content is
07:57	going to be and you're absolutely right . But what
08:00	? I was going to say that within that content
08:02	, you need to decide what position you're going to
08:05	take . Are you going to be positive about this
08:08	topic and want to persuade others to accept it and
08:11	support it ? Or are you opposed to the topic
08:13	and you want to persuade others to reject it and
08:16	oppose it ? Or in some cases , you may
08:18	want to present both sides of it and not not
08:22	persuade somebody even way . Let them decide for themselves
08:25	. So I made another guess here , and I
08:27	decided that we are going to be opposed to the
08:30	policy . In other words , we do not agree
08:33	that students should not be able to bring your cell
08:35	phones iPads and table established the school . We feel
08:38	that they should be able to . So your answer
08:42	about content was correct . And but within that content
08:45	, I think you need to decide even before you
08:47	start to right . What is your position going to
08:49	be ? So in this fictitious topic and audience ,
08:54	we're going to be opposed to this policy . So
08:58	the three steps that you've just taken make up what
09:02	I call the persuasive writing process . And we've given
09:06	you a little acronym to help you remember what these
09:09	steps are . The acrimonious tap T a p like
09:12	you touch something , you tap something , and the
09:15	tea is for topic . You can see it on
09:17	your screen . The A is for audience , and
09:20	the P is for a position . So these are
09:23	the three , um , pieces of the persuaded ,
09:27	persuasive writing process that you would go through Now we're
09:33	actually getting to what a couple of you said earlier
09:35	, the actual pre writing or writing process . So
09:39	next I'm going to show you a format that you
09:41	can use to organize the content of your persuasive piece
09:45	of writing So now that you're ready to write ,
09:49	let's decide what what we're going to call the different
09:53	, um , parts of your content there . It's
09:57	almost like chapters . So then we want to guess
10:00	what the first chapter might be called in your persuasive
10:04	writing piece . And I can give you a hint
10:09	for this one . Pretty much every type of writing
10:12	that you have is always going to start with this
10:15	type of paragraph . Oh , let's see . I
10:20	think we might have an answer here . What do
10:23	you think ? The beginning or like , the setting
10:27	part of the story ? Very close . The beginning
10:31	or the setting was the answer that they were given
10:33	and that you always had for the beginning . What
10:36	else do you think the beginning is called ? What
10:39	the topics about ? Okay , let's keep going .
10:44	Anyone ? Anyone else ? Yeah . Okay . Okay
10:51	. Well , the beginning is another word . I
10:54	have another word for that called the introduction

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Write Better Stories and Essays Workshop - Session Three: Persuasion - Part 1 conducted by Mr. George Smith and Ms. Marisa Adams on 4th December 2013

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