{"id":731,"date":"2022-03-11T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/?p=731"},"modified":"2022-03-13T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T19:39:54","slug":"persuasive-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2022\/03\/11\/persuasive-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Persuasive Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we began a new area of writing and learnt that <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a persuasive text is a text which argues a point of view, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to convince the reader to agree with the author. Using strong, clear, emotive language helps the reader to agree with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our motion this week was &#8216;School Uniform Should be Banned.&#8217; In many countries around the world, it is compulsory for children to<br \/>\nwear a school uniform. The rules can be very precise and schools may\u00a0even specify what hairstyles pupils can or cannot have. However,\u00a0there are also many schools around the world who do not require\u00a0their pupils to wear a school uniform and children are, within<br \/>\nreason, allowed to wear almost anything they like. There are<br \/>\narguments in support of both perspectives, our class discussed these within their persuasive pieces of writing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-733 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2022\/03\/11175637\/IMG_2802-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2022\/03\/11175637\/IMG_2802-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2022\/03\/11175637\/IMG_2802-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/2019mps419\/uploads\/sites\/18040\/2022\/03\/11175637\/IMG_2802-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We really enjoyed the start of this new topic as it encouraged us all to share our own beliefs and debate different ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we began a new area of writing and learnt that a persuasive text is a text which argues a point of view, to convince the reader to agree with the author. Using strong, clear, emotive language helps the reader to agree with you. Our motion this week was &#8216;School Uniform Should be Banned.&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/2022\/03\/11\/persuasive-writing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Persuasive Writing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/2019mps419\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}