MOD 1 DQ 1
Why is leadership naturally persuasive? Give examples of instances when leadership has been persuasive. When have you been persuaded by leaders?
MOD 1 DQ 2
Why is leadership naturally persuasive? Give examples of instances when leadership has been persuasive. When have you been persuaded by leaders?
mod 2 dq 1
What is the relationship between psychology and persuasion? Share a psychological theory that is persuasive.
mod 2 dq 2
Where do most college students exist on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? Be descriptive in your explanation of why.
MOD 3 DQ 1
How does dehumanization exist today? Give at least 3 examples. What impact does it have on you and communication?
MOD 3 DQ 2
Describe a situation where rhetorical absolutes had a negative effect on you. How would a more flexible term have helped?
mod 4 dq 1
Describe how you have seen stories used where you are employed. What did they communicate? Did they persuade your thinking in some way?
mod 4 dq 2
What stories have inspired you to go to school? Why? What stories have inspired you at church? Did these stories change the way you look at life? Why or why not?
mod 5 dq 1
Do family experiences make us the same or different from each other? Why or why not?
mod 5 dq 2
What experiences do all families have in common in your opinion?
mod 6 dq 1
What is the nature of the value system most prevalent in your life? Why is it most prevalent?
mod 6 dq 2
What value system did your parents impress on you when you were young? How has this affected you as an adult?
mod 7 dq 1
How does persuasion theory play a role in your personal reading?
mod 7 dq 2
How does persuasion play a role in your professional reading?
all journal
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Each week, you are required to submit a journal entry of a minimum of 150 words, addressing a specified topic.
Topic: Identify and describe a leader who has had an immense impact on you. Describe that leader’s style and some of the tactics that were particularly persuasive. Craft your response so that it correlates with the Module 1 text, lectures, and discussions.
GCU style is not required, but solid writing skill is expected.
Details:
Each week, you are required to submit a journal entry of a minimum of 150 words, addressing a specified topic.
Topic:Give an example of how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs affects persuasion. Explain a personal experience relating to this example. Where do most college students exist on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? Where do you exist?
GCU style is not required, but solid writing skill is expected.
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Each week, you are required to submit a journal entry of a minimum of 150 words, addressing a specified topic.
Topic: Examine the ethical nature of what you read and write. Give examples of discrete unethical writings and blatant aberrations. Are they simple fallacies or outright lies? Have you ever found yourself writing material of a less than ethical standard? Craft your response so that it correlates with the Module 3 text, lectures, and discussions.
GCU style is not required, but solid writing skill is expected.
Details:
Each week, you are required to submit a journal entry of a minimum of 150 words, addressing a specified topic.
Topic: Describe how you have seen stories used, the message they conveyed, and the influences they may have had. Craft your response so that it correlates with the Module 4 text, lectures, and discussions.
GCU style is not required, but solid writing skill is expected.
Details:
Each week, you are required to submit a journal entry of a minimum of 150 words, addressing a specified topic.
Topic: Explain how family references within messages have influenced you. Craft your response so that it correlates with the Module 5 text, lectures, and discussions.
GCU style is not required, but solid writing skill is expected.
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Each week, you are required to submit a journal entry of a minimum of 150 words, addressing a specified topic.
Topic:Describe the types and sources of value systems that drive most of your daily decisions and serve as a deterrent to intrusive persuasion. Craft your response so that it correlates with the Module 6 text, lectures, and discussions.
GCU style is not required, but solid writing skill is expected.
Details:
Each week, you are required to submit a journal entry of a minimum of 150 words, addressing a specified topic.
Topic: Explain how your career of choice will require your understanding and use of persuasion theory. Include techniques for understanding your own vulnerabilities. Craft your response so that it correlates with the Module 7 text, lectures, and discussions.
GCU style is not required, but solid writing skill is expected.
all assignments
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The purpose of this assignment is to show your understanding of the concepts surrounding the genesis of persuasion as a focused area of study among scholars. By analyzing the thoughts of the first, and most prominent, persuasive theorists, you will be able to build upon a foundation of the laws of thought as they govern all formation of concepts, judgments, and arguments.
It is not possible in the time provided to cover every theory of persuasion from ancient times to present. Therefore, pick one persuasive theorist from Ancients (e.g., Cicero, Plato, Aristotle, Protagoras, Gorgias) and one modern theorist. For each, explain how they understood persuasion and how this would have influenced their communication behaviors. Provide specific illustrations to support the connections you make.
After thoughtfully reading the articles/chapters assigned this week, write a 750-1,000 word rough draft essay in which you do one of the following:
Describe the original understanding of sophistry and contrast that understanding with its common understanding today.
Analyze the role of rhetoric in knowledge (according to the Gorgias). How has this role changed today?
Use the GCU Library to locate at least two additional resources to support your essay.
The rough draft needs to be reviewed by a Writing Center tutor in the Center for Learning and Advancement for feedback. Follow the link for additional information on how to set an appointment with a tutor.
Writing Center Link
You are required to show evidence that your draft has been reviewed by a Writing Center tutor.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.
Submit the assignment according to the directions provided by the instructor.
Details:
The purpose of this assignment is to show your understanding of the concepts surrounding the genesis of persuasion as a focused area of study among scholars. By analyzing the thoughts of the first, and most prominent, persuasive theorists, you will be able to build upon a foundation of the laws of thought as they govern all formation of concepts, judgments, and arguments.
It is not possible in the time provided to cover every theory of persuasion from ancient times to present. Therefore, pick one persuasive theorist from Ancients (e.g., Cicero, Plato, Aristotle, Protagoras, Gorgias) and one modern theorist. For each, explain how they understood persuasion and how this would have influenced their communication behaviors. Provide specific illustrations to support the connections you make.
Apply the Writing Center feedback you received for your History of Persuasion Essay Rough Draft to the final draft of your assignment.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to Turnitin.
Submit the assignment according to the directions provided by the instructor.
mod 2
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Write a 250-500 word essay that analyzes how cognitive dissonance explains the effectiveness of the arguments that you read this week. Use the GCU eLibrary to locate at least two additional resources to support your essay.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
mod 3
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Write a 250-500-word essay that clearly violates an ethical standard. Explain what ethical standard you violated. What effect do you feel it will have on the audience? Note: Do not be crude, rude, or offensive in this essay. Simply demonstrate your grasp of ethics.
Use the GCU eLibrary to locate at least two additional resources to support your essay.
Then, rewrite the same essay so it does not violate that ethical standard. Total word count for both essays should not exceed 1,000 words.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
mod 4
Choose an essay from the “COM 231 Essays” resource.
Use the GCU eLibrary to locate at least two additional resources to support your essay.
Write a 250-500 word essay that explains how the essay qualifies as a story. Describe the elements of structure that are present. What does it communicate?
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
mod 5
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In 500 words or less, describe how your family has influenced the way you see the world. This could be a very broad topic, so you will need to narrow your focus to discuss a specific belief, attitude, or behavior.
Draw on class lectures/readings regarding the topic of identification.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
Submit the assignment according to the directions provided by the instructor.
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In his book, The Rhetoric of Motives, Kenneth Burke proposed the idea of identification. He claimed identification is the simplest form of persuasion: “You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his” (Burke, 1950, p. 55).
Review a piece of media (film, television, novel, etc.) of your choice. Look for a character, or multiple characters, that employ Burke’s idea of identification.
Write a 500-750 word essay about your findings. Remember to keep the paper focused on identification and how the character uses that to persuade.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
mod 6
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Choose an essay from the “COM 231 Essays” resource.
Use the GCU eLibrary to locate at least two additional resources to support your essay.
Write a 500-750-word essay that explains the value system it addresses and how it is used or not used as persuasion in decision making and attitudes.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
COM 231 Essays
1. George Orwell: Politics and the English Language .net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html#part42″>http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html#part42
2. For arguments sake; why do we feel compelled to fight about everything?.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/docview/408373457?accountid=7374″>http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/docview/408373457?accountid=7374
3. Wasserman Fan Profanity Suggested alternate: Wasserman, Howard M., Cheers, Profanity, and Free Speech in College Sports.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=574165″>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=574165
4. Luis Poza: Arguing on the Internet.blogd.com/archives/001579.html”>http://www.blogd.com/archives/001579.html
5. Alison Olson the Zenger Case Revisited.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=3864964&site=ehost-live&scope=site”>http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=3864964&site=ehost-live&scope=site
6. Nat Hentoff Expelling Huck Finn.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/docview/408537066?accountid=7374″>http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/docview/408537066?accountid=7374
7. James Twitchell But First a Word from our Sponsor .gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9607301973&site=ehost-live&scope=site”>http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9607301973&site=ehost-live&scope=site
8. Sairra Patel The Media and its representation of Islam and Muslim women.themodernreligion.com/women/w_media.htm”>http://www.themodernreligion.com/women/w_media.htm
9. Richard Price A Discourse on the Love of our country.constitution.org/price/price_8.htm”>http://www.constitution.org/price/price_8.htm
10. James Ledbetter The Culture Blockade.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=7598230&site=ehost-live&scope=site”>http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=7598230&site=ehost-live&scope=site
11. Jonathan Weber The Ever-Expanding, Profit-Maximizing, Cultural-Imperialist, Wonderful World of Disney.wired.com/wired/archive/10.02/disney.html”>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.02/disney.html
12. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html”>http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
13. Emma Goldman Patriotism a menace to liberty.berkeley.edu/goldman/Writings/Anarchism/patriotism.html”>http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/goldman/Writings/Anarchism/patriotism.html
14. Leslie Marmon Silko The Border Patrol State.tucsonweekly.com/tw/09-26-96/cover.htm”>http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/09-26-96/cover.htm
15. Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience.eserver.org/civil1.html”>http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil1.html
16. Martin Luther King Jr Letter from Birmingham Jail.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html”>http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
17. Sojourner Truth Aint I a woman?.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp”>http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
18. Jeff Jacoby Whos white? Whos Hispanic? Who cares?.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/docview/405399505?accountid=7374″>http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/docview/405399505?accountid=7374
19. George Woodcock the tyranny of the clock.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rrojas/TyrannyofClock.html”>http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rrojas/TyrannyofClock.html
20. Neil Postman Virtual students, digital classrooms.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9510201721&site=ehost-live&scope=site”>http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=9510201721&site=ehost-live&scope=site
21. Anna Quindlen a new look an old battle.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2001/04/08/a-new-look-an-old-battle.html”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2001/04/08/a-new-look-an-old-battle.html
22. Bushra Iqbal: In favor of using sexist and racist language
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mod 7
Details:
This is a CLC assignment.
As a group, select 2 artifacts for analysis 1 not yet used in class.
Find 1 artifact that has a distinct family reference, value system, or story. Find another artifact that lacks family references, value systems, or a story element.
For the first artifact, show how a family reference, value system, and/or story factored into its persuasive nature. It is possible that your first artifact could have elements of one or all of the elements we are working with. One of the elements may be predominant or there may be a combination.
For the second artifact, rewrite or reconstruct the artifact so that a family reference, value system, or story will make an effective change. In reconstructing your second artifact, it may be possible to include just one of the elements or all three. As a group, use your judgment and attempt to explain and create the persuasion that you need.
Apply the theories and ideas from the Module 4 text, lectures, and discussions to explain the persuasive nature of each artifact.
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to show your learning. It should include at least 10 slides including a title page with group members’ names, each main point on its own slide with supporting evidence, a conclusion slide, and a reference slide.
You might address some of the following ideas in your presentation:
Describe the audience the message was designed for.
Describe how the artifact qualifies as persuasion under the definitions we talked about.
What theories explain the effectiveness of the artifact?
Is the family reference or value system necessary for persuasion?
Does the artifact qualify as a story according to the Module 4 text, lectures, and discussions?
Does a story form help the artifact?
Would a story form change?
Would family or value systems references make the argument stronger?
Was the artifact written ethically?
How could it be written differently so that it would be ethical?
Make it fun, but informative, showing depth of thought and critical thinking.
Details:
Write a 250-500-word essay that defines persuasion. Use your own words and opinions for this definition. Answer the following questions in your essay: How did you arrive at that definition? What factors contribute to how you are persuaded today?
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
