Persuasive Writing

Step 1. Choose a persona (in other words a perspective to argue from)

Parent Teacher Student

CEO of Apple Grandparent

Step 2. Write one (1) paragraph arguing for or against the following issue based upon the point of view of
the persona you have chosen:

Should students be allowed to use mobile phones at school?

Try and use a variety of persuasive techniques in your paragraph.

Facts and statistics Rhetorical questions Exaggeration

Expert opinion Emotive language Attack

PERSONA: Student

Having no phones in all Australian schools has impacted me greatly in a negative manner. As a high school
student actively attending Werribee Secondary College, school takes up a large majority of time in my daily
life. With society currently being in a digitally - dominated era, not being allowed to use mobile phones is a
big disadvantage to the education, morality and motivation of the students at school. With phones, we are
able to use more recourses to benefit our learning. These include sources on the web, educational apps,
interacting with one another for study purposes and a much wider access to information on the web.