Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.
I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
