Solutions – 2025/2026
Persuasion - ANS✔✔ the process of creating, reinforcing, or changing peoples beliefs or actions
Ethics & Persuasion - ANS✔✔ Make sure your goals are ethically sound
-learn about all sides of an issue
-seek out competing viewpoints
-get your facts right
-respect rights of free speech
-no deceptive statements
Persuasion & Psychology - ANS✔✔ -It is a psychological process
Persuasion Facts - ANS✔✔ -Persuasion occurs when there are two or more viewpoints
-Persuasion is the most challenging speech to give
Degrees of Persuasion - ANS✔✔ -strongly opposed
-moderately opposed
-slightly opposed
-neutral
-slightly in favor
-moderately in favor
-strongly in favor
Mental Dialogue - ANS✔✔ Mental give & take between speaker & listener
, Target Audience - ANS✔✔ Portion of audience the speaker most wants to persuade
ex. Advertising targets a specific audience
Types of Persuasive Speeches: - ANS✔✔ • Questions of fact
• Questions of value
• Questions of policy
Question of Fact - ANS✔✔ Deals with true or falsity of assertion -ex: who was first african
american judge/who will win the super bowl this year/is sexual orientation genetically
determined?
How are Questions of Fact Organized? - ANS✔✔ Topically
ex. Each main point presents a reason of why they should agree with you
Question of Value: - ANS✔✔ Deals with worth, rightness, morality of an idea or action -ex: is it
morally right to clone humans? bicycle riding is the most ideal form of land transportation
Questions of Value Info: - ANS✔✔ -they involve fact and value judgment (judgements based on
a persons beliefs about what is right or wrong)
-organized topically
-must justify your judgment against some identifiable standards
Question of policy - ANS✔✔ A question about whether a specific course of action should or
should not be taken (usually include the word "should") Ex: Should the electoral college be
abolished? What steps should be taken to reduce americas dependency on foreign oil?