Earlier this month, I was having a discussion with students in my Drugs, Society and Criminal Justice System course about a particular TED talk that I showed in class. Many students expressed that the talk was a failure because, despite discussing an emotional topic (the perils of drug addiction), the speaker did not show the appropriate emotion to grip the audience and convey the gravity of the message. This led me to thinking about a reality that has been widely known since the publication of Charles Darwin’s (1872)
Rhetorical Tricks for Fraudulent Persuasion
Rhetorical Tricks for Fraudulent Persuasion
Rhetorical Tricks for Fraudulent Persuasion
Earlier this month, I was having a discussion with students in my Drugs, Society and Criminal Justice System course about a particular TED talk that I showed in class. Many students expressed that the talk was a failure because, despite discussing an emotional topic (the perils of drug addiction), the speaker did not show the appropriate emotion to grip the audience and convey the gravity of the message. This led me to thinking about a reality that has been widely known since the publication of Charles Darwin’s (1872)