This assignment aims to compose a compelling, motivating and persuas

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As chapter 7, reveals, people can be persuaded when they are in a mindless state, as well as when they are of sound mind. Persuasion is underneath the umbrella term of Influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence a person’s beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors. Persuasion is a process aimed at changing a person’s (or a group’s) attitude or behavior toward some event, idea, object, or other people (s), by using written or spoken words to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a combination thereof. A persuasion is also an often-used tool in the pursuit of personal gains, such as election campaigning, giving a sales pitch, or in criminal trials. Persuasion can also be interpreted as using one’s personal or positional resources to change people’s behaviors or attitudes. Systematic persuasion is the process through which attitudes or beliefs are changed by appeals to logic and reason. Heuristic persuasion, on the other hand, is the process through which attitudes or beliefs are changed because of appeals to habit or emotion.

Principles of Persuasion Essay
An environmental organization would like to create a public service announcement and have brought you on as a consultant to help them better understand the principles of persuasion by getting young people to stop using recreational marijuana. Your job is to write a persuasive essay on the recreational uses of marijuana and its negative causes. Using information from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Your textbook highlights various techniques used in persuasive messaging, including foot-in-the-door, low-ball, door-in-the face, reciprocity reciprocation, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity. After examining all the techniques, choose three to address in your essay. For each of the three, describe the processes involved, and explain why such techniques are successful in persuading certain audiences but are likely to fail with others. Also, examine the overall resistance to persuasion. Although they may be undesirable, are we more vulnerable to these messages than we think?

Using Pratkanis and Aronson concepts from the text on how this might be obtained.

Sum up your paper at the end. “Do not leave your paper open, do not introduce a new topic in your conclusion”.