Chapter 3

I have always been pretty good about debating/persuading people in general, but I really thought that the different perspectives on writing, especially persuasive, was very interesting. Using your writing as a way to bring about action was a new idea on writing that I had not thought of before. Being an engineer/logically thinking person, I would usually support my ideas with factual evidence and don't expect any change to result from it. But the book proposed an idea changing the way that things are now into what the writer wants them to be just based on writing. This seems like it would be a fairly challenging skill to master. I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations of ways to practice/improve this skill about writing to achieve a certain outcome.