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Persuasive Writing Skills Worksheet

A local council is deciding whether to add more rubbish bins and signs to a busy park. Read the campaign text, investigate how persuasion works, then plan your own convincing message. Use evidence honestly and think about who your audience is.

Read the campaign

Keep Our Park Clean! Every weekend, families come to Kauri Grove Park to play, picnic and enjoy the fresh air. Yet rubbish sometimes blows from the single bin near the entrance. A clean park is safer and more welcoming for everyone. The council should install two more bins beside the picnic area and the playground. In a one-week community count, volunteers found 36 pieces of litter around the park’s busiest spots. More bins would make it easier for visitors to dispose of rubbish properly. They could also reduce the chance of plastic reaching the stream nearby. Imagine arriving for a picnic and finding a clean table instead of litter. Surely our community deserves a park we can all be proud of! Please support more bins and clear signs reminding visitors to take care of this special place.

1.What does the writer want the council to do? Write the main position in one sentence.

2.Select every technique used in the campaign text: a statistic, a rhetorical question, an anecdote, emotive language.

A statistic
A rhetorical question
An anecdote
Emotive language

3.Match each persuasive technique to its meaning.

Statistic
Rhetorical question
Emotive language
Anecdote

Words chosen to stir feelings
A number or measured fact used as evidence
A question asked to make readers think, rather than to get an answer
A short account of a real or imagined personal experience

4.The text says volunteers found 36 pieces of litter in a one-week community count. Is this a fact, an opinion, or a prediction? Explain how this detail supports the writer’s position.

5.Which sentence is mainly an appeal to the reader’s feelings?

“In a one-week community count, volunteers found 36 pieces of litter.”
“The council should install two more bins beside the picnic area and the playground.”
“Imagine arriving for a picnic and finding a clean table instead of litter.”
“The park has a picnic area and a playground.”

6.Improve this weak claim by adding a reason and relevant evidence: “The park needs more bins.” Use details from the campaign text.

7.Who is the main audience for this campaign, and what action does the writer want that audience to take?

8.The campaign claims that more bins could reduce plastic reaching the stream. What extra information would make this claim more convincing?

Plan your own persuasive message

Choose one audience: the local council or people who visit the park. Plan a short campaign message asking for one practical change that would help keep the park clean.

9.Complete your plan: audience; your position; two reasons; one piece of evidence or information you would need; and one persuasive technique you will use.

10.Write a persuasive paragraph of 4–6 sentences for your chosen audience. Include a clear position, at least two supporting reasons, and one persuasive technique. Use evidence carefully: do not invent statistics or claim that an unverified fact is true.