How to Write a Short Persuasive Argument

How to Write a Short Persuasive Argument
Author: Kelly J. Kirkland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2013-09-19
Genre: Forensic oratory
ISBN: 9781492745907

This is a step-by-step guide to writing a short persuasive argument. The book is directed towards students and business people who have trouble putting their arguments into a structured, coherent format. The technique it presents is also a useful way for experienced writers to turn out a brief persuasive argument under time pressure.After a very quick review of some basic principles of writing, the reader will learn how to write a topic sentence. She will then learn a simple way to write sentences that support the topic sentence. Next she will learn - cookbook style - how to put topic and supporting sentences together to form a paragraph and how to organize paragraphs into an argument. Finally, she will consider whether and how she might want to deal with arguments that the other side might make to try to undermine hers.Unfortunately, knowing how to write a short persuasive argument is almost a lost art these days. This brief guide is an easy way to pick up this important skill.

Fearless Presentations

Fearless Presentations
Author: Doug Staneart
Publisher: Bookman Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Public speaking
ISBN: 9781594536656

Fearless Presentations is the fastest, easiest way to go from nervous, timid, shaky, and unsure to poised, confident, and steady.The 10 simple rules outlined in this book are a summary of essential skills that will give you dramatic improvement in the way that you stand and speak. Sweaty palms, Shakiness, and Butterflies can go away immediately, Learn the One Major Secret of All World-Class Speakers, Tips on Introductions and Conclusions, How Stories and Examples Captivate Audiences, How to Persuade an Audience with Your Words, Use Gestures to add Impact, How to Write a Speech in Minutes, Add Impact to any Speech, Look and Sound poised in Impromptu Situations, How to Control Question and Answer Periods.

Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side

Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side
Author: Trish Hall
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 163149306X

From the former New York Times Op-Ed page editor, a definitive and entertaining resource for writers of every stripe on the neglected art of persuasion. In the tradition of The Elements of Style comes Trish Hall’s essential new work on writing well—a sparkling instructional guide to persuading (almost) anyone, on (nearly) anything. As the person in charge of the Op-Ed page for the New York Times, Hall spent years immersed in argument, passion, and trendsetting ideas—but also in tangled sentences, migraine-inducing jargon, and dull-as-dishwater writing. Drawing on her vast experience editing everyone from Nobel Prize winners and global strongmen (Putin) to first-time pundits (Angelina Jolie), Hall presents the ultimate guide to writing persuasively for students, job applicants, and rookie authors looking to get published. She sets out the core principles for connecting with readers—laid out in illuminating chapters such as “Cultivate Empathy,” “Abandon Jargon,” and “Prune Ruthlessly.” Combining boisterous anecdotes with practical advice (relayed in “tracked changes” bubbles), Hall offers an infinitely accessible primer on the art of effectively communicating above the digital noise of the twenty-first century.

The Invisible Sale

The Invisible Sale
Author: Tom Martin
Publisher: Que Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133431274

Build a High-Impact, Low-Hassle Digital Sales Prospecting System That Works! Hate cold calling? Stop doing it! Build a supercharged, highly automated digital sales prospecting system that attracts more qualified leads, shortens sales cycles, and increases conversion rates—painlessly! In The Invisible Sale, Tom Martin reveals techniques he’s used to drive consistent double-digit growth through good times and bad, with no cold calling. Martin’s simple, repeatable process helps you laser-target all your marketing activities, sales messages, and sales calls based on what your prospects are actually telling you. Martin boils complex ideas down to simple, straightforward language...real-life case studies...easy-to-understand templates...and actionable solutions! • Discover the “invisible funnel,” where self-educated buyers are making decisions before you know they exist • Leverage Funnel Optimized website design to identify your prospects’ key challenges before you ever speak to them • Integrate social media, content, and email to optimize the entire prospecting process • Make every sales call count with behaviorally targeted email prospecting • Leverage Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to efficiently “prospect at scale” • Use the science of propinquity to choose “outposts,” strategize social networking, and drive offline campaigns • Save money by rightsizing production quality to each marketing requirement • Rapidly create keyword-rich text content, and use it widely to promote self-qualification • Create webinars and tutorials more easily and painlessly than you ever thought possible • Choose low-cost devices, apps, software, and accessories for quickly creating high-quality DIY media content • Learn how to apply Aikido Selling Techniques to close self-educated buyers

The Necessary Art of Persuasion

The Necessary Art of Persuasion
Author: Jay A. Conger
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2008-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633691020

In an age when managers can no longer rely on formal power, persuading people is more important than ever. Persuasion is a process of learning from colleagues and employees and negotiating shared solutions to solving problems and achieving goals. In The Necessary Art of Persuasion, Jay Conger describes four essential components of persuasion and explains how to master them, providing the information you need to fulfill your managerial mandate: getting work done through others.

Write Like this

Write Like this
Author: Kelly Gallagher
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571108963

If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important, they need to emulate good writers. In Write Like This, Kelly emphasizes real-world writing purposes, the kind of writing he wants his students to be doing twenty years from now. Each chapter focuses on a specific discourse: express and reflect, inform and explain, evaluate and judge, inquire and explore, analyze and interpret, and take a stand/propose a solution. In teaching these lessons, Kelly provides mentor texts (professional samples as well as models he has written in front of his students), student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies proven to elevate student writing. By helping teachers bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, Write Like This enables students to become better adolescent writers. More important, the practices found in this book will help our students develop the writing skills they will need to become adult writers in the real world.

The Composite Persuasion

The Composite Persuasion
Author: Joel Marsh
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1470928280

** Persuasion, manipulation & brainwashing. The most complete method of influence, ever. ** Did you know that most "classic" persuasion books are built on old research from the 1980's? Based on the science of psychology and the methods of masters, The Composite Persuasion is the long-awaited update to persuasion research for a new generation of persuaders, online and in real-life. Joel Marsh is a world-class Experience Architect who has compared over 40 persuasive disciplines, combining the best methods from the world's most persuasive experts into a single formula. From military training and movie scripts, to fortune tellers and scientists, all persuasion everywhere is the same. Learn how to "do" persuasion, fix your weaknesses, and avoid being manipulated, now.

Persuasive Writing

Persuasive Writing
Author: Peter Frederick
Publisher: Pearson UK
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2012-09-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0273746162

Developed from powerful techniques consistently proven in the world of multi-million pound commercial bid writing, Persuasive Writing reveals the most efficient and effective ways to make your words work, time after time. Discover how to: Transform any document into something truly compelling and persuasive Understand what your reader really wants to hear and use this to get what you want Combine logic and emotion to convince even the most sceptical reader Whether you're writing for business or for pleasure, the longest document or the shortest email, with these and many more proven techniques, Persuasive Writing will ensure every word works for you.

The Big Bed

The Big Bed
Author: Bunmi Laditan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466897848

From Bunmi Laditan, the creator of the Honest Toddler blog, The Big Bed is a humorous picture book about a girl who doesn't want to sleep in her little bed, so she presents her dad with his own bed—a camping cot!—in order to move herself into her parents' big bed in his place. A twist on the classic parental struggle of not letting kids sleep in their bed.