ATARMAxxing · WACE English as an Additional Language or Dialect revision notes
How non-fiction texts persuade: expert voices, statistics and language choices
Persuasive techniques
What this note covers
- What the syllabus asks you to analyse
- Expert voices and credibility
- Statistics and evidence
- Language choices: emotive words, inclusive language and rhetorical devices
- Structure and placement as persuasion
- Bias, manipulation and stereotyping in Unit 4
- Worked example: explaining persuasion in an original text
7 sections · 12 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes
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