1.The correct answer here is a summary of a textbook reading assessment. The point of the persuasive
writing is to convince your readers. Different kinds of persuasive writing exist
but their main point is to either to move people to action like in different kinds
of political pamphlets like the famous “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine or to
convince your readers that your opinion is valid, many kinds of reviews are
done with this purpose. Many different techniques exist that are used in
writing persuasive writing like the logical conclusion, use of statistics and
scientific evidence.
2. The correct answer here is opinion. The video games get a lot of negative press and that is mainly
because it is a field that is often misunderstood if it is even understood by
many at all. Even though there are numerous studies that show that aggression and
violence are not correlated with video games many still insists on this. The statement
here is also only an opinion because there is no evidence provided in order to validate
this claim. Many games created for younger audiences and even among those that
are not there are many that are not violent at all like the hit game “Journey”
or even the old school “Tetris”.
3.The correct answer here is “Playing football gives you concussions”.
The hasty generalization is a logical fallacy that people commit when drawing general
conclusions from a small amount of data. Here person makes a conclusion based
on a small sample and not an appropriate statistic. In this statement, the action
of “playing football” according to the speaker always results in a concussion
which is simply not true. There are cases and there can even be a lot of them but
not all games lead to a concussion of every player.
