'In Examining Others We Know Ourselves': Joanna Baillie on Sympathetic Curiosity, Moral Education, and Drama by Lauren Kopajtic

“…I conclude by showing that although Baillie overstates her case in some respects, the core of her argument for the moral educational role of literature is persuasive and provides a rich resource in our study of eighteenth-century treatments of passion, character, and moral education.…”
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Literary seduction: Minds, bodies and non-textual phenomena by Michael BURKE

“…Deliberations into what makes a literary text persuasive, what seduces readers to continue reading once the act of reading started, is often a combination of (a) what is written (the themes), (b) the order and manner in which the events of the story are presented (the narrative structure and how the text is filtered, and (c) how a story is written (the style and rhetoric of the text). …”
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Visual Emotive Meaning in Conservation Advocacy: An Analysis of WWF’s Public Service Announcements by Xu Song, Kesumawati A. Bakar

“…The findings revealed that WWF’s persuasive strategies predominantly revolve around evoking negative emotions through negative attitudes, unmediated perspectives, enlarged graduations, and activated ambiance in the PSAs. …”
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Zur Leistung von Adjektiven in Vorstellungstexten von Ärzten – eine Analyse anhand der Profile auf Arztbewertungsportalen by Gabriela Rykalová

“…Overall, it can be stated that the adjectives have a persuasive effect in many cases and make an important contribution to creating a positive image of the doctor. …”
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LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEECH by Vidmanė Žoštautaitė, Dinalda Simuntienė

“…Carefully chosen type of speech (demonstrative, informative, ceremonial or persuasive) alongside with particular linguistic devices (lexical and stylistic) allow any influential orator to create a notable impact on the target audience and manipulate the mind-set of the masses. …”
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The concept of total defense in the deterrence strategy of the Republic of Serbia by Milkovski Vangel, Božić Sandra

“…The starting point in this paper is the position that the defense system, without a previously defined and generally accepted concept of total defense, may not be fully efficient and effective in creating a credible and persuasive threat in the function of strategic deterrence. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…For Reynolds and Rymer, therefore, the hoax did not constitute a departure or escapist fantasy, but a potentially more persuasive affirmation of the ideological commitments that they shared. …”
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Yaklaşan Tehlikenin Farkına Varmak: İktisadi Büyüme, Nüfus ve Çevre Kirliliği İlişkisi by Adem Karakaş

“…Aynı zamanda nüfus karbondioksit artışına neden olurken tersi durumun geçerli olmadığı görülmektedir. Diğer yandan, kişi başı refah karbon emisyonunu artırırken bunun tersi de geçerlidir. …”
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Suppressing the Endogenous Negative Influence Through Node Intervention in Social Networks by Satoshi Furutani, Tatsuhiro Aoshima, Toshiki Shibahara, Mitsuaki Akiyama, Masaki Aida

“…To address this issue, we consider the problem of suppressing the negative influence that emerges endogenously on social networks through preemptive node interventions, such as persuasion, nudging, or warnings. Namely, given a limited budget for interventions, who should be targeted to efficiently suppress the spread of negative opinions in the social network? …”
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Metacognitive strategies and critical thinking in elevating EFL argumentative writing proficiency: Practical insights by Noldy Pelenkahu, Muhammad Ilham Ali, Devilito Prasetyo Tatipang, Ceisy Nita Wuntu, Olga Anneke Rorintulus

“…Every cycle offered learning activities that focused on metacognitive and critical thinking to refine students’ ability to write persuasive arguments. During the previous cycle, the students showed strong skills in stating their goals and identifying their planned actions. …”
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Differences in Determining Ramadan and Shawwal: A Discourse Analysis of the Book Nusus al-Akhyar fi al-Shaum Wa al-Ifthar by Ika Wahyu Ningsih, Fitri Febriyanti, Iqbal Ainur Rizki

“…The results showed that the linguistic aspect that stands out in the discourse of persuasion is the invitation to promote unity in the midst of controversy over differences in each group; the author's ideology appears in the title, the lexemes "judge" and "hilal"; the pronouns of the time and person in the text indicate that there is a different social context from the current condition. …”
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Faculty Members' Perspectives on Organisational Identity: Digital Leadership of Universities of Nineveh Governorate by Thabet Ihsan Ahmed, Ahmed Raad Ibrahim, Nour Fares Ahmed, Dhamiaa Ali Abdullah

“…There was a positive and statistically significant relationship between DL and its dimensions (innovation, persuasion, knowledge) and organisational identity of higher education (p<0.05). …”
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From Humor to Strategy: An Experimental Survey on Internet Memes in Social Media Marketing by Mateusz Kiljańczyk, Agnieszka Kacprzak

“…For the purposes of the study, effectiveness was understood as the ability of a message to induce the passage of the recipient through all stages of perception of the persuasive message, with the last stage being the acceptance of the sender’s outlook. …”
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Investigating the Impact of Digital Leadership Dimensions on Service Economics Dimensions: An Empirical Study of Service Ministries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Badreldin Mohamed Ahmed Abdulrahman, Sanaa Mostafa Mohammed

“… This study examines the influence of various aspects of digital leadership (such as digital culture, visionary planning, system design, empowering leadership, employee development, innovation, persuasion, and knowledge) on different dimensions of service economics (including innovative economic ideas, efficient use of economic resources, leadership behaviors, and economic learning) within service ministries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. …”
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WILL TO TRUTH IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRAGMATISM by D. Y. Snitko

“…Within the framework of pragmatic philosophy, the author has determined the essence of will-to-truth phenomenon, which is understood as the aspiration of man to a stable and relevant to reality and his own goals persuasion in relation to himself and reality. The main factors of this phenomenon in pragmatism are doubts (doubts are defined as a prerequisite for the establishment of belief (beliefs), which gives a person confidence in the positive decision of certain life tasks) and persistent belief (truth) that enables a person to succeed and achieve his goals. …”
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A Critical Review of the Equality Iranian God/Goddess ‎with the Gods/Goddess of Greeks Case Study: Vanand, Ashi and Nike by Reza Mehrafarin, Shahin Aryamanesh

“…For this reason, Vologases I, eliminated the figure of Nike goddess from his coins during his reign with the goal of Persianism and the abandonment of non-Iranian symbols.…”
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Compelling reading skills in English classes through guided discovery strategy by Katherine Castro Vélez, Samantha Vega Zambrano, GABRIEL BAZURTO, Jhonny Villafuerte Holguin

“…In this work it address issues related to the teaching of English as a foreign language, it focus on the development of reading skills through persuasive reading, it also highlight grammatical comprehension and comprehension of information input, and it point out some of the benefits of the application of the guided discovery strategy in the classroom, thus knowing that reading comprehension is of interest as a means of developing cognitive abilities and even helps them to become familiar with different reading styles, it also constitutes a significant learning process, which in successive stages will allow them to access information quickly and efficiently, achieving an independent mastery of their abilities, knowledge and skills when learning a language. …”
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La pile gallo-romaine de Cinq-Mars-la-Pile (Indre-et-Loire) : réexamen du dossier à la lumière des récentes découvertes by Emmanuel Marot

“…However, excavations in the north of the site have revealed a monumental terrase, a semi-excavated building and a statue sculpted in local stone, probably representing a near-eastern prisoner. …”
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Expéditions scientifiques dans les déserts iraniens et le mont Elbourz entre 1925 et 1939 by Dominique Lévy-Jahanbakht

“…Referring to post-colonial theories, we will try to understand to what extent the attractiveness of new findings may have influenced the image of Persia among these scientists, and we will question the opportunity to actually foster academic exchange between Iran and Europe at that time of history. …”
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Geopolitical analysis of the collapse of empires by syrous Ahmadi Nohdani, aziz nasirzade, reyhane salehabadi

“…The research deal with the geopolitical factors contributing to the collapse of empires such as Persia, Rome, Byzantium, Ottoman, Britain, Russia, Spain, and Arab countries, using a descriptive-analytical method and field research. …”
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