2. Designing Persuasive Communication
• The term ‘persuasion’ means to force someone
into something.
• The art of persuasion is the art of finding the
best available means of moving a specific audience in a
specific situation to a specific decision.
• Persuasive communication means, persuading
others to understand what one is trying to communicate.
• Persuasive communication has one core purpose: get the
readers to support, believe, and act in favour of presenter.
3. Designing Persuasive Communication
• Communications strategy
– establish the primary communication objectives
- Key factors of persuasion – perception, experience, and memory
- Creating awareness of a service or product, promoting, attracting,
creating goodwill
6. Designing Persuasive Communication
• Message strategies
the message is the thought, idea,
attitude, image or other
information that the sender wishes
to convey
- Involvement theory
evaluating the pros and cons
7. Designing Persuasive Communication
• Message structure and
presentation
- Resonance – wordplay,
often used to create a double
meaning used in combination with
picture.