What are the important characteristics of persuasive writing?

Question

What is persuasive writing?

Why do we need to learn persuasive writing skills?

Where you need persuasive writing?

How to compose a speech in persuasive writing style?

Answer 1

Persuasive writing, in the simplest terms, is to motive or convince a reader to adopt the writer's point of view.

It is a device used to persuade people if more than one opinion exists. So persuasive writing is what many of us do in our college essays: responding to a piece of literature, and then engaging others to respond to it in the same way as you did. In other words you are having what is called an "argument" in writing. It doesn't mean that two people yell at each other but that two people try to convince the other of their point of view about a piece of literature.

For example, an event such as the reasons for the Civil War, is hotly contested over whether is was about "state's rights" or about "slavery." Historians and the general public can offer their differing points of view about the reasons based upon his or her reading of the primary sources and argue a logical conclusion based upon the evidence.