For you to persuade skeptical or hostile audience members‚ they must believe that you know what you’re talking about and that you’re not trying to mislead them. One of the best ways to gain credibility is to support your message with facts. Testimonials‚ documents‚ guarantees‚ statistics‚ research results‚ and the like all provide seemingly objective evidence for what you have to say‚ so they make your message more credible. It also helps to name
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issues are general‚ vital __________________ . 8. TRUE/FALSE: You can use emotional appeals to make logical claims stronger or more memorable. 9. According to your text‚ the three main elements that add up to ethos are a. trustworthiness/credibility‚ authority‚ and unselfish or clear
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O’Brien’s The Things They Carried‚” captivates O’ Brien’s primary motive of telling a “true” war story. These stories and journals can be synthesized together through paralleling ideas such as the concept of imagination versus reality‚ O’ Brien’s credibility to his story without outside sourcing‚ and the lingering uncertainty dividing the men’s sanctity of what lies beyond‚ both literally and figuratively. Tim O’Brien’s short story‚ “The Things They Carried‚” contemplates the value of reality versus
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Applebaum‚ Anne. "If the Japanese Can’t Build a Safe Nuclear Reactor‚ Who Can?." Writing and Reading across the Curriculum. Ed. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. 12th ed. Boston‚ MA: Pearson Education‚ 2012. 502-03. Print. The article starts off by recounting the natural disasters that took place in Japan a week before the article was written. She believes that thanks to the Japanese peoples’ calmness and composure after these events‚ that the nation will eventually recover‚ but one of the nuclear
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delivered by Nixon carried little demonstrative weight to the motivation of achieving his final hopes and goals. It wasn’t for lack of sentiment‚ his words were drowning in the colossal guilt he had at losing office‚ but rather for the lack of credibility he now wore in spite of his previous accomplishments. His relationship with the American people was forever tainted. Even when he was pardoned of his crimes by President Ford a few years later his poisoned reputation lingered and his goals as
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Carpenter et al. increase their credibility. This increased credibility presents them as more trustworthy to a reader and ultimately increases their persuasiveness. They shortly follow this with another ethos appeal to show that they "expressed understanding" (2). By addressing their own understanding‚ they illustrate their willingness to respect another person’s viewpoint which contributes to their overall ethos appeal. This further increases their credibility and the trust a reader places in them
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choice creates credibility for himself and allows the reader to be convinced into reading more. One illustration of Shipler’s incredible word choice is when he writes “we reveal in the nobility of tireless labor and scrupulous thrift that can transform a destitute refugee into a successful entrepreneur.” By reading this clever sentence‚ the reader can assume that Shipler has an excellent vocabulary. Excellent vocabulary means excellent knowledge‚ excellent knowledge means good credibility. Readers are
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CHAPTER 6: LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE Page No.166: Credibility: The Key to Successful Influence First‚ if there is one defining characteristic of leaders who are effective over long periods of time‚ it’s that they behave in ways that cause people to see them as credible. That means that they are believed‚ and trusted‚ both in the specifics of what they say‚ and generally‚ as people. How do they do this? First‚ credible leaders are consistent in their words and their behaviors. They are not constantly
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takes time and effort up front‚ but it pays off enormously in the end. Covey divides trust into four separate “waves”: Self trust‚ relationship trust‚ organizational trust‚ market trust‚ and societal trust.. Self trust includes the four cores of credibility: integrity‚ intent‚ capabilities‚ and results. Integrity consists of four virtues: congruency‚ humility‚ and courage. Making and keeping commitments to yourself increases integrity. Something as small as getting up in the morning when you tell yourself
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other places as they could (1). In this reference he includes Apostle Paul who also “...left his little village...and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ…” (1). Those two converged allusions are included in his letter in an attempt to one: build credibility by comparing his own actions to those of these men who he appears to admire for their perseverance. An additional reason for his including the above allusion is to compare the issue of segregation to the situation for which the eighth century prophets
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