Reflection

What are some of the reasons why writing a persuasive piece is particularly difficult?
In what ways can this be improved? (Preparation, Writing, Editing)
What kind of support will be needed to realistically improve these skills without severely placing the course behind schedule? (which it is now)

Persuasive writing is meant to convey a message that convinces the audience of a certain opinion you are presenting. It is backed up by facts, and in order to make a strong persuasive writing piece, you need to avoid using other people's opinion's to back up your own. When statistics are used and actual facts, they make your opinion stronger and make it more believable as well as legitimate. Some of the reasons why writing a persuasive piece is particularly difficult is because, its so simple to just write down someone Else's opinion. Some people would rather just find another person's opinion, instead of researching actual facts or statistics and spending the time to do it. Another reason would be, that the arguments should flow properly and they should be able to make sense. If the audience fails to understand what message you are trying to convey, then the whole piece is down the drain. Not only that, but if the audience sees you constantly repeating the same statements over and over, it makes it look like a cheap job.

I think persuasive writing can be improved by doing, more in depth research into the topics we are doing. We should get at least 3 different people to check over our work, in case we don't catch some of our own mistakes. It would also be important to think twice before writing something, for example: "would the audience understand this, if they don't know anything about the topic?" "Would the audience agree with the statement and are they backed up by facts or nothing?" It would also be good to learn from the best, try and get some tips from the good writers and learn something from them. Also, try and think in the other person's perspective and how they would look at the arguments presented and if they would question anything about it?

The type of support that our class would need is, to work as a team in my opinion. There are some strong writers in our class, and if we did some group activities, we can learn some things from them. We can also, do activities that train us in various aspects of writing and then combine those aspects together and eventually we will learn to do it independently.