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persuasive speech | an attempt to influence your audience members' beliefs, attitudes, or actions. |
strategic discourse | arguments that will achieve your persuasive purpose most ethically |
fact claims | something that is true or false |
value claims | attach a judgment such as good, bad, moral, or immoral |
policy claims | advocate action by an organization, institution, or member of audience |
latitude of acceptance | range of positions on an issue acceptable to your audience |
latitude of rejection | range of positions on an issue unacceptable to your audience |
boomerang effect | when your audience is pushed to oppose your idea even more vigorously than they did before |
needs | objects your audience desires and feelings that must be satisfied |
values | core beliefs at what is desirable for our own life and for society |
two-sided argument | you acknowledge an argument against your thesis and use evidence to prove it wrong |
core beliefs | viewpoints that people have had for years |
peripheral beliefs | beliefs that people have not had for very long |
motivated sequence | aims to establish five main points in a persuasive presentation |