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COM 323 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining Persuasion For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.com   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 For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Persuasi
on 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
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.com   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 For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.com   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 For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Nonverba
l 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.snaptutorial.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
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 limit the effectiveness of
persuasion.  
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COM 323 Week 5 DQ 1 Superior Subordinate
Influence in Organizations For more classes
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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
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 classmates postings by Day 7
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