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Persuasive Writing Relay

Read the outback-station scenario and the short draft. Complete the relay tasks in order: identify persuasive choices, improve the draft, then give useful feedback. Make edits that strengthen the writer’s argument while keeping their main idea.

The station’s waterwise plan

After a long, dry week at an outback station, Jarrah suggests installing a rainwater tank beside the workshop. Lachlan writes this draft for the station newsletter: “Everyone should support a rainwater tank. It is a good idea because tanks are good. You should agree because water matters. A tank could collect water from the workshop roof when it rains. Then that water could be used to clean tools and water young trees. We need this plan now!”

1.Which TWO techniques already appear in Lachlan’s draft? Choose two.

A relevant reason or example
Direct address to the reader using “you”
A made-up statistic
A comparison using “like” or “as”

2.Lachlan says the tank could collect rain from the workshop roof. Is this a fact in the draft, an opinion, or a prediction? Explain what makes it that kind of statement.

3.Talia is reviewing the draft. Which feedback would help Lachlan most?

“This is bad. Start again.”
“Add a specific fact or estimate about how much water the roof might collect.”
“I like it!”
“I rewrote the whole thing for you.”

4.The draft uses “good” twice in its opening. Rewrite “It is a good idea because tanks are good” using a more precise word or phrase, while keeping the meaning.

5.Rewrite “A tank could collect water from the workshop roof when it rains” to make the reason more convincing. You may add a relevant detail, but do not invent a precise statistic.

6.“We need this plan now!” sounds forceful but gives no reason for the urgency. Rewrite it as a clear sentence that links the plan to the dry conditions.

7.Write one persuasive sentence about why saving water for young trees matters. Use emotive language without making an unsupported claim.

8.Which idea in the draft most needs evidence or an explanation: that water matters, that a tank can collect roof water, or that collected water could clean tools and water trees? Give one reason for your choice.

9.Number these steps from 1 to 3 to show a helpful way to review a teammate’s writing. Start by reading the whole draft to understand its main idea. Then point out one strength and suggest one clear improvement, in either order: ___ Suggest one clear improvement. ___ Read the whole draft to understand its main idea. ___ Point out one strength.

10.Write one sentence Lachlan could add to persuade readers to support the tank. Include a reason and either direct address, emotive language, or a rhetorical question.

11.After receiving feedback, what is one change Lachlan should make first, and how would it strengthen his argument?