Term 2 - Persuasive Writing

We have been learning to write persuasive texts. To do this, we had to use our words to convince someone to believe something. Here is an example of my writing. I tried to persuade The Hawkes Bay Community to stop some of the people that are dumping rubbish, litter and nappies.

Dear Hawkes Bay Community,

I am writing to you because I think that dumping rubbish, litter and nappies is certainly not acceptable at all. Dumping rubbish anywhere causes a major impact on the environment and is very cruel and disgusting.

Can't you see that if certain types of animals, for example; birds and different insects can eat the litter and rubbish (even though they are in their very own habitat) they could get very sick, they could choke and probably even end up dying. This is a very wrong act and it should definitely never end up happening to an innocent animal’s habitat. This needs to stop immediately.

I don't know about you, but I think heaps of people love fish! And also all the fish and chip shops are going great, but it won't be for long. You see, the litter, rubbish, nappies etc, can all end up in the rivers and oceans. This can happen by dumping rubbish on land but very close to the river and could fall in, but some horrible, horrible people actually just dump it in the rivers and oceans. This causes fish to die and the food-chain to stop. 

And just remember that this is my opinion, but I'm sure everyone else thinks that this NEEDS to stop, straight away. And this is why I'm sure everyone needs to hear this message and spread it out to others too, because this is certainly not okay and no-one should ever dump rubbish, nappies and litter ever.