Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility Evaluations

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2 Responses to Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility Evaluations

  1. Jacki Jinx says:

    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

    Unbelievably unprofessional, January 31, 2011

    By Jacki Jinx –

    This review is from: Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility (Paperback)

    I can not believe, based on how much I needed to spend on this book, that many of the definitions cited in the chapters are from wikipedia. Wikipedia! I can’t name a single professor who would accept that on a paper, but somehow, that’s perfectly acceptable in the textbook publishing world. And some of the sources aren’t even cited at all! And don’t get me started on the perspective bias that is in there. One incident of a man who murdered five people was insinuated to be due to a miscommunication/bad persuasion issue, but when I found information outside of the book on the incident, there was no such causation mentioned…and the author had the death count off. Bottom-line is, although there is certainly useful information in here, but the book is constructed rather poorly, and based upon that alone, it’s incredibly hard to trust the text. Certainly not worth the money spent.

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  2. Ed Williams says:

    1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

    Complete waste of time…, July 26, 2010

    By Ed Williams (Colorado Springs, CO USA) –
      

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    This review is from: Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility (Paperback)

    The author is so very opinionated about politics that reading it is difficult. In addition the entire book is mostly on how to be a good listener, what to listen for, etc. Only the last few chapters have any reference to how to persuade people and it’s very unremarkable information. Suggested my university drop this book from their line-up.

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