Informative writing is designed to use facts to inform the reader on a topic or guide them through a procedure. It can be seen as a recipe, technical manual, or as an informative brochure. Topics are limitless with informative writing. If there is a want or need to inform the masses about a topic than informative writing will be a useful method of writing to meet the demand. For an in class activity, teachers can have the student choose a topic that they are interested in and have them write a "How To" paper. In addition to writing the paper they can actually present their "How To" paper in class, such as How to Hula presentation.
Persuasive writing uses a different set of tactics than informative writing. Persuasive writing appeals more to the ego, emotions, or character of the reader to get them to follow the writings position on a topic. This could be seen as political adds, advertisements, etc. In class the teacher can use the current book being studied in class and pose a for or against question pertaining to a choice or occurrence that happened in the book. The students would decide on which side they wanted to be and write a persuasive paper to convince their opponents to change their position on the topic. For example, Do you think that Snape is truly evil? Why or Why not?
I like how you stated that persuasive writing uses a different set of tactics than informative writing. During persasive writing, the writer takes a position for or against an issue and convinces the reader to believe or do something.
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