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COM 323 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining Persuasion FOR
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ing Persuasion. Choose what you consider to be
the three best definitions for persuasion found
in Chapter Two of Perspectives on Persuasion,
Social Influence and Compliance Gaining. How has
the definition of persuasion changed over the
past thirty years? Predict future changes to the
definition of persuasion.
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COM 323 Week 1 DQ 2 Trends in Persuasion
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Research. Advertising can be viewed as a leading
form of persuasion that people confront on a
daily basis. List and explain at least two other
forms of persuasion you engage in or are
confronted by on a regular basis. Are your
experiences in this area positive or negative?
How do morals and ethics affect the persuasion
situations you choose to describe?
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COM 323 Week 2 DQ 1 Persuasion Theories FOR
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asion Theories. Chapter Four of Perspectives on
Persuasion, Social Influence and Compliance
Gaining provides multiple persuasion theories
choose three theories and explain the strengths
and weaknesses of each. Which theory do you think
best explains the purposes for persuasion?
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COM 323 Week 2 DQ 2 Credibility FOR MORE
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y. Discuss how motivation and ability affect both
a person attempting to persuade another and how
motivation and ability affect the person
receiving the attempted persuasion. What other
factors contribute to effective or non-effective
persuasion attempts
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COM 323 Week 2 Persuasion, Manipulation, and
Seduction FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
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Manipulation, and Seduction. Prepare a paper
detailing the difference between the terms
persuasion, manipulation and seduction as they
relate to human communication. Please provide
modern-day examples of the varying types of
persuasive devices, and describe which audiences
respond best to which sorts of techniques
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COM 323 Week 3 DQ 1 Argumentative Verbal
Persuasion FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
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Persuasion. Discuss both the constructive and
destructive traits of aggressive communications.
What types of audience responds best to these
persuasion tactics and which respond most
negatively? Provide examples to support your
findings.
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COM 323 Week 3 DQ 2 Nonverbal Communication FOR
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rbal Communication. Segrin advances that
nonverbal behaviors are as powerful, in some
cases more powerful, than some of the message
strategies that have been studied in producing
compliance from others (Seiter Gass 165). Do
you agree that non-verbal persuasion can be more
effective in gaining compliance than the words
used to persuade? Provide at least one, scholarly
outside source to support your opinion.
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COM 323 Week 3 Ethics and Persuasion FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.com323study.com   Ethics and
Persuasion. Prepare a paper detailing the
importance of ethical behavior and its
significance in persuasion. Define at least two
ethical theories in your paper, and explore the
impact that ethical practices have on persuasion.
You may choose to examine a current event issue
to illustrate your viewpoints.
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COM 323 Week 4 DQ 1 Compliance Tactics FOR MORE
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Tactics. Choose the three compliance tactics
from Chapter Twelve that you feel are the most
effective. Explain the basis for the
persuasiveness of these tactics and provide
examples of how these tactics could be improved.
Describe which groups of people are most
susceptible to the tactics you analyze.
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COM 323 Week 4 DQ 2 Gender FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.com323study.com       Gender. How
does gender affect persuasion? Predict whether or
not gender persuasion tactics will increase or
decrease over the next 50 years, and why
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COM 323 Week 4 Humor and Persuasion FOR MORE
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Persuasion. Prepare a paper detailing the
effectiveness of humor in persuasion. You may use
the above two, scholarly articles as a basis for
your observations. Your paper should not only
detail the effectiveness of humor, but also
indicate the risks with attempting to use humor
in persuasion. Your paper should include previous
theories of persuasion and how the technique of
humor can support or limit the effectiveness of
persuasion.
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COM 323 Week 5 DQ 1 Superior Subordinate
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Subordinate Influence in Organizations. Present a
best practices approach toward
superior-subordinate influence in organizations
for the field you hope to be involved in upon
graduation, or the field that you are currently
working within. Which persuasion practices are
the most effective and why?
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COM 323 Week 5 DQ 2 Course Review FOR MORE
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Review. Provide a three- to five-paragraph
summary of the thesis and your main ideas for
support for your Final Paper. Detail the major
points of your final presentation and allow your
classmates to understand the major points of your
paper.
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COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper (Gun Control) FOR
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COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper (Smoking) FOR MORE
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COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper and Presentation
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