Monday, September 30, 2013

The Art of Persuasion

One afternoon, I received this email from Barnes & Noble:




Clearly, the online form that lets you beg your parents for Chimpact didn't have enough room for Margot to make her case.  She followed up with this dizzying combination of logic, persuasion, and attempted guilt-tripping:

I immediately let her teacher know that the persuasive writing instruction seemed to be sinking in.