REFLECT

The following questions will give you a chance to self-evaluate, to think about what you’ve been learning in this course, and to draw your own conclusions about how you can apply persuasion in your life. Your answers may be used to determine how to improve the program for future students. Your answers will not be used for marketing purposes. Please respond in a paragraph of at least 5–7 sentences to fully address all five questions. Be sure to use your own words!

Think about persuasion and how you encounter or use persuasion in your daily life:

• In what circumstances have you found a need to be persuasive in the past?
• When have you had to use evidence to help persuade a person or group of people?
• How did you choose the evidence that you used?
• How did you know that evidence was credible and valid?
• Was your personal credibility affected by the credibility of your evidence? If yes, explain why you think it was affected. If no, explain why you think it wasn’t a factor.