Replies that advocating a rapprochement between NDT and CEDA overstates the difficulties that separation has created. Points out the benefits generated by competition between these forensic organizations. (PD)

Describes an exercise designed to make students aware of the inferential process and its relevance in persuasion. (PD)

One of the frustrations students new to intercollegiate competitive oral interpretation experience is having to learn the "unwritten rules" for the events. These rules are neither intrinsically negative nor positive. Any of the practices embodied in these rules may be used effectively by a student performing an oral interpretation of…

As originally formulated by William J. McGuire, Inoculation Theory provided a means of immunizing cultural truisms against the effects of persuasive attacks. Subsequent studies have demonstrated its efficacy in conferring resistance to issues of considerable complexity and controversy. The efficacy of the Inoculation Theory process has been widely…

Public Speech has been lacking in Germany because neither the political nor the intellectual atmosphere has been favorable to free, full, and open discussion. (Author)

The author found through experimentation that a well-used metaphor can facilitate persuasion and attitude change. The author's hypothesis is that inclusion of similes will increase persuasiveness but that use of metaphors instead of similes would have a greater effect in attitude change. (MS)

Describes Lenin's style as a propagandist, and summarizes the reason for his effectiveness as an agitator. (JB)

A study of the use of sex-typed power bases indicated that, while speakers who used bases associated with the opposite sex were equally persuasive, women who demonstrated expertise and men who demonstrated helplessness were less liked and considered less competent than those who used appropriate sex-typed power bases. (Author/MJL)

Proposes that all the rhetorical sources of argument--"ethos" and "pathos" as well as "logos"--are essential to technical writing and should be taught. (RL)

Examines the traditional informal fallacy of "argumentum ad populum," standardly characterized as the fallacy committed by directing an emotional appeal to the feelings or enthusiasms of "the people" to win assent to an argument not adequately supported by proper evidence. (PD)

This critique of Ernest R. House's monograph, "The Logic of Evaluative Argument," attempts to clarify the relationships between evaluation as persuasion and the practical argument. If the outcome of a practical argument is action, then to be persuaded is to be persuaded to act. (Author/RL)

Provides a heuristic for written persuasion which encompasses ethical, pathetic, and logical argument. (DD)

Evaluates the philosophical, theological and civic contributions made by Reinhold Niebuhr to American society. (RK)