English Persuasive Scaffold

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Create a persuasive text that uses language patterns to strengthen its purpose.

Target Audience: Purpose:

• Main Ideas
  • Language comes in both speech and writing
  • Speech and writing are very different
    • Writing is a very new form of language
  • Texting is the equivalent of writing like we speak
    • There are many different things that are being created within the language of texting
    • Texting is an expansion of user’s repertoire
• How is Engagement Created?
  • Non-Verbal
    • Hand-gestures
    • Showed proficiency in the topic
  • Language Features
    • Humour
      • Joke about how people don’t speak like how they write
    • Repetition

• Main Ideas
  • Stories have a big influence on us
  • Stories construct our views on the world and are not always truthful
    • They warp the perspective of others and construct prejudices and ideas about things they don’t truly understand
• Non-Verbal Engagement
• Verbal Engagement
  • Humour
  • Sharp speaking style
  • Pauses between speech
  • Repetition/Rule of Threes
  • Emotive language

• Main Ideas
  • Texting is addicting and a large part of our lives but it is harmful
• Non-Verbal Engagement
  • Use of ironic imagery
• Verbal Engagement

• Main Ideas
  • A global pandemic is the most threatening thing to the human race
  • We have been extremely lucky so far
  • We are globally underequipped to deal with an epidemic
• Non-Verbal Elements
  • Comparison between war and viruses to exemplify the danger that a pandemic may hold
  • Anecdotal evidence used of the time spent trying to tackle Ebola and the major struggles faced
  • Statistics for Ebola deaths in West-Africa
  • Model of how a really bad epidemic could go with a virus far worse than Ebola
• Verbal Elements
  • Juxtaposition of microbes to missiles