We have just completed a whole pupil free day looking at our instructional practice on student writing. Anne Hammond, our resident literacy coach had us look at persuasive text for most of the morning: where you would find it, how it comes in different text forms [e.g. editorials, songs, advertising, and letters to the editor], its purpose, the social context surrounding the text and the possible world view of the author. She encouraged teachers to let go of the view that longer text pieces were better, that students needed time to practice and refine a particular piece, that in the gradual release of responsibility to students they needed to be able to select the text form and not be told to all write e.g. poems that rhyme and that the purpose was all important.
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