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• COM 323 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining Persuasion
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• Defining 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 Research
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• Trends in Persuasion 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
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• Persuasion 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
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• Credibility. 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
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• Persuasion, 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
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• Argumentative/Verbal 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
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• Nonverbal 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
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• 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
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• Compliance 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
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• 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
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• Humor and 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

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• COM 323 Week 5 DQ 1 Superior Subordinate
  Influence in Organizations
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• Superior 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
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• Course 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. Review at least three of your classmates
  primary postings and provide feedback concerning
  your opinions on their findings. Respond to at
  least three of your

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• COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper (Gun Control)
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• COM 323 NS Week 5 Final Paper (Gun Control)

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• COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper (Smoking)
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• COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper (Smoking)

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• COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper and Presentation
  (Smoking)
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• COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper and Presentation
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