manipulation

Examples of manipulation in the following topics:

• Ethical Usage

  • When you make emotional appeals avoid unethical tactics, such as exploitative manipulation.
  • This emotional appeal may persuade audience members to vote for you or your candidate, but it may also be unethical or considered manipulative if the audience members do not have a chance to rationally process the message before the vote takes place.
  • In order to ethically portray an emotional appeal, be sure to avoid these inappropriate uses and manipulative techniques for emotional appeals.
  • Emotional appeals can be effective if they are not manipulative and are used to further an honest message.
  • List the types of manipulative techniques used to emotionally appeal to audiences

• Employ Empathy and Sensitivity

  • Audiences can tell the difference between an honest emotional appeal and an attempt is to manipulate how they feel.
  • Audiences loathe feeling manipulated, so an audience that senses inauthentic motives will strongly reject both the appeal and the speaker.

• Other Presentation Software Options

• Eye Contact and Facial Expression

  • This versatility makes non-verbal facial expressions extremely efficient and honest (unless deliberately manipulated).

• Defining Emotional Appeal

  • An emotional appeal is directed to sway an audience member's emotions and uses the manipulation of the recipient's emotions rather than valid logic to win an argument.

• An Overview of PowerPoint

  • It typically includes three major functions: an editor that allows text to be inserted and formatted, a method for inserting and manipulating graphic images, and a slide-show system to display the content.

• Deploying a Rational Appeal

  • Arguments from reason (logical arguments) have some advantages, namely that data are (ostensibly) difficult to manipulate, so it is harder to argue against such an argument; and such arguments make the speaker look prepared and knowledgeable to the audience, enhancing ethos.

• Body

  • This is not to say that you should manipulate your data; rather, present only the information that your audience needs to see and hear to support whatever argument you are trying to make.