Persuasive Techniques

Both of the candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have a strong propensity to persuade, so they know how to use social psychology to their own advantages in their quest to achieve the majority of American votes. Clinton referenced her commitment and consistency, as well as reciprocity by mentioning her connection to the middle class when she was growing up. Likewise, Trump cited his commitment and consistency, authority, and was able to instill in the audience a social proof whenever he referenced business throughout the debate. By using her position as Secretary of State, Clinton was also successful at using social proofing and authority when speaking to the audience. Central routes to persuasion are extensively connected to the principles of authority and social proofing, so both candidates used statistics effectively to sound

The United States of America faces one of its most unsatisfying presidential elections in history. Neither Donald Trump nor Hilary Clinton has done enough to win over the country. According to a recent poll done by Data Targeting INC, sixty five percent of all Americans have said they would vote for another candidate that is not Trump or Hilary (Wilson). This is where Gary Johnson becomes a major factor. He was previously the governor of New Mexico and is now running on the libertarian presidential ticket. He recently released a commercial that blasted both Trump and Clinton while also giving many reasons why he believes he would be a suitable president. The commercial starts off with someone impersonating Abraham Lincoln pointing out the many faults of Trump and Clinton including the multiple lies that have been told, the many business deals gone wrong, and the general distaste the American public has for them. It goes on to list all Gary Johnson’s accomplishments throughout his political career. The ad tries to keep a

With the presidential election coming to a close, the campaigns of Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump are doing their best to attract voters now more than ever. The question is, who will be more successful? When analyzed in detail the Hilary Clinton campaign is appealing to their targeted audience in a way that makes her campaign more successful.

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.

In recent elections, the image of presidential candidates has become more and more important. With the increase in television popularity the role of the public in presidential elections has grown. It has become more important that American citizens are attracted to a candidate’s personality and image, especially in the most recent election between Clinton and Trump. Where some may say Clinton had sounder political plans and ideas on issues, Trump made up for in appealing to the American demographic with his promise to “make America great again.” With the rise in television popularity, presidential elections have increasingly prioritized images over issues by focusing on the appearance of the candidates in the media, instead of the plans they have for becoming president.

“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.

“Big Brother is watching you” (Orwell 2). This quote is from the novel 1984 by George Orwell. In this book, the society is controlled by an all powerful government that capsizes the people’s brain so that there is no independent thought. Citizens are constantly being watched and monitored while all they can do is support them and pour out hate to the enemy thinking the party is always right. Hope comes to a man named Winston, the protagonist, a lone man who secretly opposes the manipulation of the mind. After the plot unravels, Winston begins to show his opposition against the party. The party controls everything in the society and puts everything the way they want it to be, endlessly reminding people that they

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

In the most recent presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, many new election tactics were presented – especially the use of social media, reality entertainment personalities and trying to gain millennial support by relating to them in various ways. As the use of this new tactic went up, the extremities in other aspects of the campaign only increased as well. There became an almost lack of seriousness and rise in hate and bullying, especially in advertising pro their campaign and against their candidates.

In the upcoming presidential debate our two main candidates fight for a spot to be president, but in order to take down the opponent it is necessary to find and reveal any contributions that could ruin the race for one candidate. This was what the political ad called “Trustworthy” by AmericaRisingPAC is trying to convey. This ad focuses on every major lie or contradiction that Hillary Clinton has mentioned or done throughout the course of her campaign. Trustworthy’s main point is to prove to their audience that Hillary is not trustworthy, and because of that her popularity in the election is dropping. Though the ad seem somewhat dramatic and bias, it does have very solid evidence take can really appeal to the emotions and sense of judgement. Every piece used is either a quote from Hillary Clinton herself, or a new clip of the current state that the world is in. AmericaRisingPAC uses her own words against her in a form that makes you doubt her credibility. Even the structure of the ad is done in a way that supports the message and the evidence at the same time. This ad makes sure that you are able to follow the point, every time they use more evidence it is first introduced and then deleted metaphorically like her personal emails. Credible quotes, contradicting news evidence, and compelling layout all work together to provide the basis for the anti-Hillary ad ‘Trustworthy’. This leaves little room for the public to label the political ad as

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.

Credibility Statement: My mom is a pediatric nurse practitioner, and has always made me to get all of my shots and vaccinations. Over the past few weeks, I have spent a considerable amount of time reading up on this topic.

While the sun sets and darkness creeps in, kids huddle around to watch the TV. However, instead of watching a late night horror movie, they begin to watch a Trump rally. Children are always known to follow what they see either on television or in their own homes. In Hillary Clinton's recent campaign advertisement entitled "Rolemodels," Clinton attempts to appeal to viewers’ emotions by using various designs to demonstrate how a Trump presidency would damage our children. Hillary Clinton takes on the concept of Children learning how to act by what they watch on the television, mainly targeting Donald Trump’s heinous public behavior and speeches.

For example, using a leftover coffee can for loose nails or screws, or even washing and reusing a plastic zip-loc bag instead of throwing it in the garbage. Thrift shopping is a way of reusing someone else’s unwanted goods. As I spoke about in an earlier speech about thrifting, I included many locations and ways to thrift, also the benefits to the shopper and the donator. One place in particular was shopping at the local boys and girls club. I personally shop there, keeping my eyes open for a good deal. For example, the pair of jeans that I am wearing today was purchased from this store just a few months ago. I paid only $8.00 for this pair of Lucky Jeans and according to buckle.com, a retailer for lucky jeans the retail price is $99.00 that is a savings to me of $91.00.I am not the type to worry about name brands, but quality usually does cost more. If I can get a quality pair of jeans at a fraction on the price, I am glad to shop at the thrift store. I am thankful to the person that made the donation of the lucky jeans and they can benefit from that donation. According to the IRS webpage, IRS. Gov it explains that an individual can donate items like clothing, household furniture and furnishings, a car or boat, even taxidermy. The donations are appraised, by the donator, and recorded. At the time of filing taxes if the donation equals at least $500 for the year, the donator may take advantage of the

Persuasion is described as the deliberate process that intends to change an individual’s attitudes, behaviours or beliefs from their previous initial views and ways of behaving in society. Persuasive communication is widespread and evident all around us, including in central areas of politics, marketing and media. Burkholder et al’s (2003) findings support the idea that there are cultural differences evident in the effectiveness of persuasion, in which they found that shortly after the end of the Iraq war, surveys indicated that although Americans favoured the use of military action against Iraq by 2:1, Europeans opposed it by the same margin. There are four key factors that help influence persuasion amongst the masses, depending on their