Persuasive Writing

Persuasive Writing - Teaching Through Famous Quotes & Tips

Persuasive Writing Explained through famous quotes

Here is a very good explanation of persuasive writing defined and explained through quotes and sayings of famous personalities:

"I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told."
Dale Carnegie

"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? " Dale Carnegie

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."
Dale Carnegie

"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts”
Robert Fulqhum

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death "
Robert Fulqhum

"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden"
Frances Hodgson Burnett

"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by ... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need"
Harvey Cox

"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
Lillian Hellman

"Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. Doctorow

Tips for Powerful Persuasive Writing

Start with a story or in a story telling style
Describe and visualize every element. Remember " a big, red, juicy strawberry..."
Involve the reader by using the element of imagination.
Use powerful active writing do not go into boring monologues, or long descriptions.
Use powerful hypnotic words. That keep the reader involved.
Use emotional triggers such as greed, lust, curiosity, the 'What happens next' element.
In short your writing should be so powerful that your reader goes into salivating, hyperventilating, releasing a rush of adrenaline or even going into an orgasm. Keep your reader begging for more.

Persuasive Writing