The Persuasion Handbook

The Persuasion Handbook
Author: James Price Dillard
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 897
Release: 2002-07-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1452261598

The Persuasion Handbook provides readers with cogent, comprehensive summaries of research in a wide range of areas related to persuasion. From a topical standpoint, this handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering issues of interest to interpersonal and mass communication researchers as well as psychologists and public health practitioners. Persuasion is presented in this volume on a micro to macro continuum, moving from chapters on cognitive processes, the individual, and theories of persuasion to chapters highlighting broader social factors and phenomena related to persuasion, such as social context and larger scale persuasive campaigns. Each chapter identifies key challenges to the area and lays out research strategies for addressing those challenges.

Messages that Work

Messages that Work
Author: Patrick O. Marsh
Publisher: Educational Technology
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780877781844

Persuasive Speaking

Persuasive Speaking
Author: Bowe Packer
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1631879472

"Are you ready to take the big challenge of Sharpening your Speaking Skills?" "Looking for effective strategies to improving your your persuasive speaking skills?" "Ready to take your public speaking to a new level?" This Practical Guide Is Designed For Those That Might Not Really Understand The Science Behind Persuasive Speaking and How It Works and Are Looking To Increase Their Public Speaking Effectiveness. Believe it or not, there are powerful and effective strategies on ways to dramatically improve your fear of public speaking and become an effective presentation and public speaker. And I give them all to you within this guide. You will finally learn how to: Exercise and Strengthen your speaking skills through time tested, practical and efficient methods. Let's face it, if we don't know the strategies and techniques to hone our persuasive speaking skills then how can we expect to feel confident and become an effective speaker. Discover these techniques today and have a blueprint to dramatically improve your speaking skills. The secret to your success will be how well you apply what you discover in this guide. Learn these strategies, apply them and be well on your way to gaining the confidence needed to present information like a professional. Here is just a bit more of what You'll Learn about improving your Persuasive Speaking skills. * The power of emotions and the subconscious mind. * The Domino Model and its effectiveness. * Guidelines for better speech and projection. * The power of story telling. * Special closing techniques you must master. * The extremely effective persuasion techniques to master. * And much more.... Persuasive Speaking is like your muscles in your body. If you work it out, it becomes sharper and more powerful. Gaining the knowledge of these factors and applying a sound strategy to improving your public speaking skills will have you on your way to becoming a more effective speaker for the rest of your life!

Public Speaking

Public Speaking
Author: W. A. Kelly Huff
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781433102592

Why are you speaking, what is your purpose, your topic? Who comprises your audience and how will they be affected by your message? How will they react? What are supporting materials, where does one find them, and how does one incorporate them into presentations? These questions and more are addressed in this accessible introduction to public speaking. The reader will learn all the tools of giving an effective public presentation, including how to put a speech together, how to choose supporting materials, and strategies for how one should look, sound, and act while delivering a speech. The book addresses different types of speeches and provides suggestions for how to cope with the fear of public speaking - and how to turn that fear to one's advantage. Practical and useful, Public Speaking: A Concise Overview for the Twenty-first Century is a roadmap that helps its readers navigate the challenges of effectively conveying thoughts, ideas, and messages from one person to another.

The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion

The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion
Author: James Price Dillard
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2013
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1412983134

The Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice provides readers with logical, comprehensive summaries of research in a wide range of areas related to persuasion. From a topical standpoint, this handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering issues that will be of interest to interpersonal and mass communication researchers as well as to psychologists and public health practitioners.

Persuasive Messages

Persuasive Messages
Author: William Benoit
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-01-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This is a guide to successful persuasion, using student-friendly examples to provide a much-needed balance between theory and application. The authors offer practical advice on refining purpose, understanding audience, and designing a persuasive message.

Persuasion

Persuasion
Author: Kenneth E. Andersen
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1978
Genre: Persuasion (Psychology)
ISBN: