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Persuasive Text Drafting

A local council is considering whether to add more water-refill stations at public sports grounds. Write a persuasive text for the council arguing for or against the idea. Use the information on this page as your evidence. You may take either position, but make your reasoning clear.

Information

Finding

What it might mean

Visitor survey

In a survey of 200 visitors, 138 said they would use a refill station.

Many visitors say they would use one, though stated intentions are not a guarantee of future use.

Possible cost

One station is estimated to cost $4,800 to install and $600 a year to maintain.

The council would need to budget for both installation and ongoing maintenance.

Waste audit

A one-day audit collected 96 disposable drink bottles from bins near the grounds.

Disposable bottles were present in the bins that day; one day cannot show the usual weekly amount.

Plan your position

Build a case that is clear, fair and supported by evidence.

1.Choose your position on extra refill stations. Write a one-sentence claim for the council, and name the audience you are trying to persuade.

2.Which figure from the information pack would best support the claim that visitors may use a refill station? Choose one and explain what it does—and does not—prove.

3.Select the most careful way to use the waste-audit evidence in a persuasive text.

The audit proves that exactly 96 bottles are thrown away at the grounds every day.
A one-day audit collected 96 disposable bottles from nearby bins, suggesting bottle waste is worth investigating further.
Every visitor at the grounds throws away a disposable bottle.

4.Write one counterargument someone on the other side might make, using the cost information. Then write a sentence that responds respectfully to that concern.

Draft with purpose

Use a deliberate structure: hook, claim, reasons and evidence, response to another view, and a final call to action.

5.Draft an opening of two or three sentences. Hook the council’s attention, state your position, and keep the tone suitable for a public decision-maker.

6.Draft a body paragraph supporting your position. Include a point, one accurately described piece of evidence from the information pack, and an explanation of why the evidence matters.

7.Improve this sentence by replacing the overstatement with a fair, precise claim: “The audit proves that the grounds throw away 96 bottles every day.”

8.Choose a transition that best connects a point about visitor demand to a point about cost: “Many visitors say they would use a station. ___, the council would need to consider the installation and maintenance costs.”

For example
However
As a result

9.Write a conclusion of two or three sentences that restates your position in fresh words and gives the council a specific next step.

10.Edit the sentence for clarity and formal tone: “The council should put them everywhere because heaps of people will use them and it’s just better.”

11.Before submitting your draft, name one revision you would make to strengthen its reasoning or evidence. Explain why that change would help your reader.