Persuasive Tactics

Today, one can see the tactic of persuasion being used as a standard avenue to influence a person’s attitude or beliefs by presenting them with different messages that encourage things like using certain brand name products, vote a certain way, or where to take a vacation just to name a few. There are four types of people that include gullible people, skeptical people, firm believers, and people who are leaders who trust others as well as make others follow their ideas. Persuasion is a widespread topic of social psychology and may be done in different ways. There are two types of cognitive processes by which to persuade someone, which are the central route or the peripheral route. For this assignment I used mostly the central route approach as well as using a little of the peripheral route approach. To reinforce the peripheral route approach the use of pathos was also used during the video to play on the emotions of the watcher. This PowerPoint is effective at using the central route of persuasion, peripheral

In the book Just Mercy, written by Bryan Stevenson, named one of the best books of the year by multiple newspapers such as The New York Times, Stevenson talks about how the justice system affects those who are less fortunate and minorities. Bryan Stevenson is an attorney who, at the time, was pretty young. He founded the Equal Justice Initiative. This organization defends the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the justice system. The biggest client and one of the first was Walter McMillan, sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit.

In the Unit three summative text, there are two articles, “Take a Book Wherever you go” by Joan Aiken, and “Benefits of Audiobooks” by Denise Johnson, that both use persuasive techniques. But, “Benefits of Audiobooks” by Denise Johnson is more persuasive. Johnson claims that audiobooks will have a positive impact on all kinds of students. Her use of evidence, bandwagon appeal, and reason and logic make it apparent that the reader should take her side. One persuasive strategy the author used was evidence.

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both,” (White 184). What made Charlotte a good writer was not her innate ability to weave a web, but her ability to weave a beautiful text. Texts of any sort are persuasive, just as Charlotte needed to use her web’s words to persuade people that Wilbur was more than just bacon. Throughout the book, E. B. White uses persuasive methods in order to make the reader feel and believe the same things he does.

In all my years on this Earth, I can only be absolutely sure of two things.

The persuasive techniques I plan to use the most in my statements are cardstacking, name calling,appeal to emotion, and plain folks. I plan to use these techniques because they are very effective when you are trying to prove a point. I will use cardstacking in the statements to list all of the positive points about Poultry Tech. By using this method, I will be able to explain how they are helping the community. I will also use it to build up each witness to make others feel that they are more trustworthy. By using cardstacking, I am appealing to the ____ and will make others think that Poultry Tech doesn’t have any intention to cause trouble towards the people of Waterville and the Chesapeake Bay. In addition, I will be adding the appeal

A cult, also known as a new religious movement, is defined as an exclusive group of individuals who come together to follow a leader's extreme ideas. A cult holds three general characteristics which include: being led by a charismatic leader, has radical beliefs and rituals compared to the norm, and isolates its members from their society to protect them from “evil”. The Unification Church, short for The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, is a cult that began in 1954 and was founded by Sun Myung Moon. Moon believed Jesus appeared to him when he was a teenager and told him he was carefully chosen to continue the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. He was told that Jesus himself had begun this mission before his death,

Gerard A. Hauser covers a plethora of details on how to create a well-made persuasive argument in his book, an Introduction to Rhetorical Theory; however, he covered three specific essentials that are necessary for persuasion: the components logos, pathos and ethos; purposive discourse and rhetorical competence; identification. I will argue for each constituent, respectively, to prove that persuasion cannot thrive without the aforementioned essentials.

The intentions of the ‘Dumb Way To Die’ is to save more lives each year and protect people from the dangers of trains. The advertisement I made is trying to make people less oblivious and more aware of what’s going on. Both of these ads uses persuasive techniques that help the audience understand the aim and the main point. As a matter of fact, sixteen thousand people per year die from getting ran over by trains. Not to mention, over one hundred thousand people per year suffer severe injuries from making erroneous decisions around trains. Both these ads clearly aim to increase public awareness and engagement with rail

Based on the readings from The Republic of Plato, the central tension within the book is identifying the ideal form of guiding individuals either through a persuasive or compulsive path of becoming complete guardians. Through persuasion, those qualified to rule, similar to Adeimantus and Glaucon, are more adequately educated to lead a city than through compulsion. Within this essay, the defining important principle of persuasion that will be explained are listening, exhortation and dialectic. By examining Platos understanding of the importance of persuasion in education, it can be determined that qualified individuals are more adequately educated through an emphasis of persuasion over compulsion.

In the Ted Talk “We should aim for perfection- and stop fearing failure”, Jon Bowers outlines his argument for perfection. He begins by giving an example of a “small error” that ended up costing Amazon over $160 million dollars. He then lists more examples draws them forward to present his idea of perfection. The examples show how one tiny error can have an enormous impact and he turns to the audience asking “why we cannot achieve perfection?”. He draws the listeners in by giving personal experience in striving for perfection. “Look, a hundred people die everyday due to vehicular crashes. Think about that for a second. That's like the equivalent of four commercial airliners crashing every week, yet we still can't convince ourselves to pay perfect attention behind the wheel. So I teach my drivers to value perfection”. Jon is an educator for professional delivery drivers and has to ensure that they are prepared to handle any and every situation possible.

Kin Hubbard once said, “We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate”. Political parties consistently use deceit and manipulation as a way to sway voters away from their opponents and towards themselves. Our current Presidential Candidates are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Some may say we have to choose between the lesser of two evils. It makes one wonder how these evils came so far in the running. The answer is simply they have excellent campaign Ads in addition to a really great poker face. Granted, not everyone is enticed by these “promising” campaign ads, but most people buy into them.

Throughout the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne makes it clear that Reverend Dimmesdale is ashamed that he has hidden his ignominious sin from the people. Within this narrative, the citizens of Salem, along with specific key events, impact his morality and influence his decision to display the Scarlet Letter upon his chest – to the public. It is not until the end that we see his inner soul devoured by his own sin, causing him to break and finally tell everyone the truth about the identity of Hester Prynne’s lover.

The central route to persuasion requires high efforts of processing which occurs through a complex structure, thus leads to longer lasting effects of persuasion. However, if an audience is lacking in motivation, in which they are not analytical or involved with the message they are more likely to take the peripheral route to persuasion. In this case, peripheral cues are used in which these cues trigger an acceptance of the messages thus leading to persuasion, which is usually a temporary effect [Myers et al 2016 p190-191].

In writing it’s important to have an understanding of what you’re trying to convey for your audience in addition to how you you will present your ideas. Effective communication extends beyond having well organized writing expressed in complete and coherent sentences. The style, tone and clarity of writing must also be considered, as they are constantly changing relative to the audience. Again, analyzing one’s audience and purpose is essential to successful writing. Appropriately, when choosing the most effective language, it is important to consider the document objective as well as the reader. In essence, this idea of effective use of language has been the overarching theme of this online English course. Each writing assignment