But let's not get hung up on semantics: Dillow and Wren-Lewis are both right that a key part of economic wisdom is thinking about the mechanisms we suppose are acting in the real economy; on one side, these mechanisms may not be specific to a particular model, and on the other hand any model had better have persuasive mechanisms in it, or it's not helpful.
The caveat is that cluelessness, when one ought to know better, is rarely persuasive.
We must become far better at crafting persuasive narratives that trigger an emotional response among listeners, increase frequency and diversify the messenger.
He reeled off a litany of statistics that sounded pretty persuasive: better academic test scores than most states, rising income levels, a higher penetration of health insurance, more stability in housing prices than in most of the country.
This chapter aims to provide a better understanding of persuasive strategies and software features that are frequently employed in existing systems using the Persuasive Systems Design Model (PSDM) and the Outcome/Change Design Matrix (O/C Design Matrix).
If a "large, well-funded programme of research on the effects of editorial peer review" is ever launched [ 48] it would be useful for gatekeepers who wish to publish better-written, more persuasive and more easily understood research articles to seek input from the other two communities of experts in scientific, technical and medical communication. 1.
Nothing better illustrates the enormously persuasive power of cinema.
As the year goes on, I find that students are better prepared to write persuasive essays because they have become more accustomed to arguing their point of view.
After studying the matter, Ms. Davidson concluded, "Online blogs directed at peers exhibit fewer typographical and factual errors, less plagiarism, and generally better, more elegant and persuasive prose than classroom assignments by the same writers".
Explanations that Wagner's anti-Semitic ranting against Meyerbeer caused a massive shift in public opinion or that cinema came along and proved it could do the same thing better aren't really persuasive, although it is true that too many music lovers have let Wagner do their thinking.
The Christianity of C. S. Lewis, Augustine, and Blaise Pascal--the one I found more persuasive and better reasoned than Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault (as formidable and brilliant at they are).
