Week 7 Communication Assignment
CH 5 Unit Objectives
This chapter discusses how to influence others through the use of evidence. It also details the different types of evidence speakers use, arguments to validate and invalidate evidence from authorities, arguments to validate and invalidate statistics, tests of ordinary witnesses, and tests for documents and legal papers.
Terms and Issues to Know
- Evidence
- Inference
- Factual example
- Statistics
- Options of authorities
- An ordinary or lay witness
Discussion
Directions:
Write a 500-word main post that responds to each question below. Chapter 5 defines evidence and the different types of evidence on pages 71-74 of the text.
Questions to Answer:
- Why is evidence necessary to change someone’s beliefs?
- Which type(s) of evidence are you mostlikely to consider when changing your behavior? Why?
- Which type(s) of evidence are you leastlikely to consider when changing your behavior? Why?
- If you came into contact with someone that needed to be persuaded in that manner, how would you do it?
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Week 7 Communication Assignment