Methods of Persuasion p.331

I. Building Credibility

  • Factors of credibility
  • types of credibility
  • enhancing your credibility

II. Using Evidence

  • How evidence works: a case study
  • Tips for using evidence

III. Reasoning

  • Reasoning from specific instances
  • reasoning from principle
    1. deductive reasoning
    2. establishing a premise for your persuasion
  • causal reasoning
  • analogical reasoning
    1. making a comparison between two similar cases and inferring what’s true for one case is also true for the other
    2. frequently used in a policy argument
  • fallacies

IV. Appealing to Emotions

  • What are emotional appeals
  • Generating emotional appeal
  • Ethics and Emotional Appeal

The Power of Words

6 Public Speaking Tips To Hook Any Audience

V. Sample Speech with Commentary

  • The Living-Wage Solution ( p. 352)

A speech on Fat Shaming