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

COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper (Smoking) NEW

COM 323 Week 5 Final Paper (Gun Control) NEW

COM 323 Week 5 DQ 2 Course Review NEW

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

COM 323 Week 5 DQ 1 Superior – Subordinate Influence in Organizations NEW

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?

COM 323 Week 4 Humor and Persuasion NEW

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.

COM 323 Week 4 DQ 2 Gender NEW

Gender. How does gender affect persuasion? Predict whether or not gender persuasion tactics will increase or decrease over the next 50 years, and why

COM 323 Week 4 DQ 1 Compliance Tactics NEW

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. 

COM 323 Week 3 Ethics and Persuasion NEW

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. The paper must be formatted according to APA style, and all resources must be properly cited in text as well as on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online cours

COM 323 Week 3 DQ 2 Nonverbal Communication NEW

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.