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
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Start with a story or in a
story telling style
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Describe and visualize every
element. Remember " a big, red, juicy strawberry..."
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Involve the reader by using
the element of imagination.
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Use powerful active writing
do not go into boring monologues, or long descriptions.
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Use powerful hypnotic words.
That keep the reader involved.
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Use emotional triggers such
as greed, lust, curiosity, the 'What happens next' element.
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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.
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