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COM 323 Week 1 DQ 1 Defining Persuasion  
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  
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    
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  
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 attemptsand weaknesses
of each. Which theory do you think best explains
the purposes for persuasion?
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COM 323 Week 2 Persuasion, Manipulation, and
Seduction    
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  
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    
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  
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. The paper must be
three to five pages in length. Use at least three
scholarly resources found in the Ashford Online
Library to support your claims and subclaims.
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COM 323 Week 4 DQ 1 Compliance Tactics    
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  
Gender. How does gender affect persuasion?
Predict whether or not gender persuasion tactics
will increase or decrease over the next 50 years,
and whythese 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 Humor and Persuasion  
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  
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  
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
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