- Transfer an understanding of communication fundamentals to the social contexts experienced in everyday life.
- Recognize the important, meaningful roles that non-spoken behaviors fulfill during our communication interactions.
- Understand the axioms of persuasive communication and its principles and ethics.
- Evaluate the interplay between the persuasive source and the responsive audience.
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the perceptual process of communication.
Activity Description
Demonstrate your intuitive and applied research of topics relating to persuasive appeals in political, theological, or psychological rhetoric. To reach this end you will research, write and post three artifacts on your blog for this class, one for political, one for theological, and one for psychological appeals.
Be sure to:
- Apply the persuasive approaches to each; the dialectical for politics, the epistemic for religion, and the narrative for the psychological context, and then find an artifact to analyze within these contexts.
- Look at motivational and/or ideological appeals used to persuade within these contexts.
- Feel free to use existing artifacts, interpersonal experiences, public messages, any message type wherein a persuasive appeal is proffered.
- Document your findings, being certain to link your claims to your supporting evidence of breadth and depth.
- Submit your findings on your blog you've created for this class, making sure all your posts are completed by July 9. Be sure to link your claims to your sources.
Activity Rubric
The learner demonstrates their intuitive and applied research of topics relating to persuasive appeals in political, theological, or psychological rhetoric. 40 points
The learner examines motivational and/or ideological appeals used to persuade within their chosen rhetorical context. 30 points
The learner shows breadth and depth in their scope of research. 20 points
The learner posts their best work on their blog, three separate posts, one for each context, with sources linked within the body of their text. 10 points
