Communication Vs Persuasion Communication

After this semester’s learning, I’m proud to say that have a much more comprehensive and systematic understanding about persuasion and persuasive communication. To be honestly, I’m always considered to be quite persuasive. Since I was a kid, I knew how to motivate people by telling them “you can do it and the problem is easy”, aka addressing self-efficacy and response-efficacy. However, it never occurred to me that solution information and threat information are of equal weight in persuasions; It is common sense that the threat information in persuasion should not be too scary, but it is only after I learnt about the two potential routes of the EPPM did I finally understand how to use the fear appeal in persuasion appropriately; I knew …show more content…
The idea of overestimating or underestimating similarities are very common, it is deeply rooted in human nature, and I think these concepts are of great value to apply to practice. For instance, if someone is disagreeing with me because we never see eye to eye, I can make him to reevaluate his opinion by pointing out the fact he might underestimate our similarities, and vice versa. I can’t help thinking how many times I might turn down a good proposal from someone I don’t trust, how many times I might accept a bad idea from a close friend. Same thing goes with the implicit attitude, or the stereotypes. I guess I’ve become more objective and less emotional. A couple more things I’ve discovered about myself is that, I’m a high self-monitor. I feel obligated to change my behavior based on the situation, and I don’t feel uncomfortable with it. I think it’s perfectly normal for us to try to fit in, but I do understand why the low self-monitor choose not to change. I also tend to process information in central routes, I never trust simple decision rules, instead I’m always interested in the logic behind the …show more content…
If I could begin again, I would definitely choose an in-person lecture rather than an online course. I only realized the importance of getting more involved with the discussion, and put the theory into practice after the final persuasive speech. I think it would be great if I had more opportunity to discus and practice what we learnt in the lecture in person with my classmates. Another issue with the online course is that, I don’t get the chance to know my peers, which can cause some problems. For example, I can set up my survey questions differently to get more information about my audiences if I already knew their