Questions: How are you immersed in a sea of persuasion? Give some examples of persuasive messages you’ve received in interpersonal, public speaking, and mass media contexts. What can you do to become a more critical consumer or persuasive messages?
For the past two years I have worked with Junior High Students in an After School program that assists students in their homework. In addition, I teach extra-curricular activities to them after their tutoring sessions. Today, of course, was Veteran’s Day and I had to go into a training at the district office that I work at, and the whole training was centered around how to make tutoring sessions more effective and even how to create more original enrichment classes. Towards the end of my training we had a teacher come in to speak to us about how we are influencing the lives of Junior High students all over East Side Schools in San Jose. Some of the things that really stood out to me when I was listening to this powerful speaker were her dynamics in how she spoke. She emphasized the points that she felt were the most important, and that should stand out to us. Also, the fact that she used universal terms to make her speech feel like it was catered to every single person in the room. I noticed she used the words “us, we, and you” to make us feel a part of her speech. By using these two concepts and just passionate emotion in her speech, it really drew me to her and touched me to want to make a difference in my student’s lives even more. I hope to make some form of impact on someone’s thoughts during my time of presenting my persuasive speech on the day we meet.
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That is a good example. The speaker was persuading you to make an even bigger impact on the kids' lives. In turn you are kind of persuading the kids to do something good with their life. Persuasion is everywhere. It is all over television, radio, and magazines. Also, it is especially prevalent a few weeks ago because of the election. I am sure everyone saw their share of commercials for propositions and for the candidates. It is important when we see such persuasive media that we think about who is giving us the imformation as well as why they are giving it to us.
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