Should puffery advertising in South Africa be banned? An interdisciplinary analysis by Francoi de Wet, Martin Marais, Debbie Human

“… Advertising is employed to influence consumer decision-making by informing, persuading and reminding. Legal persuasive advertising is referred to as puffery (praise for a product by means of subjective opinions, superlatives, or exaggerations, vaguely and generally stating no specific facts). …”
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Peran Strategi Self Management Team dalam Organisasi by Mufti Afif

“…For a leader, this strategy will form the typical attitude that is; Relating, scouting, persuading and empowering. Nevertheless this strategy cannot be implemented in all the company’s organization, except for those which already familiar with the culture of decisionmaking by employees.…”
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Medical Rhetoric in Training Pediatricians by Elena N. Grinko

“…The latest scientific researches evidenced that the success of a doctor's practice is related not only to his highly professional medical knowledge, but also to his ability to talk, persuade, and communicate. Rhetoric is the theory and practice of the effective verbal expression of a thought in terms of a public monologue and dialogue; Medical (private) rhetoric is aimed at the development of general and professional verbal, cogitative, and communicative abilities of the future doctor. …”
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SOME THEORETICAL MODELS EXPLAINING ADVERTISING EFFECTS by Vasilica Magdalena SOMEŞFĂLEAN

“…Persuade clients is still the main focus of the companies, using a set of methods and techniques designed to influence their behavior, in order to obtain better results (profits) over a longer period of time. …”
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21W.747-1 Rhetoric, Spring 2010 by Strang, Steven

“…In this course you will act as both a rhetor (a person who uses rhetoric) and as a rhetorical critic (one who studies the art of rhetoric). Both write to persuade; both ask and answer important questions. …”
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Courseware development for EE4761 by Hlaing, Tint Tint

“…In this era, where youths have higher technological knowledge, learning needs to be more attractive than olden days. To impress, persuade them into learning technical theories, lecture with animations are introduced in academic institutions. …”
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Commentary: responsibility-sensitive healthcare funding: three responses to Clavien and Hurst’s critique by Douglas, T

“…I am sympathetic to the general thrust of their argument, share—at least tentatively—their policy conclusions, and was persuaded by much of the detail of their argument. …”

Pos Malaysia Berhad a case study: absenteeism among postman in Negeri Sembilan / Nur Syahirah Mansor by Mansor, Nur Syahirah

“…After some discussion and meeting with the interviewee, researcher may conclude that factor that persuade to absenteeism is personal factor by the postman himself. …”
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Women’s empowerment: examining leadership communication of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia and The USA by Sudarmanti, Rini, Bauwel, Sofie van, Chia Longman

“…We generally conclude that women entrepreneurs tend to create open communication, focus on the processes of “listening and persuading,” and show care for others.…”
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The role of exhaust gas recirculation in flameless combustion by Hosseini, S. E., Wahid, M. A., Abuelnuor, A. A. A.

“…The outstanding econ omic aspects and merits of flameless combustion have persuaded the combustion scientists to investigate about this unique technology in the various ways and conditions . …”

Preferred principle elements of design in effective photography by Ismail, Adzrool Idzwan, Zainal Abidin, Ahmad Hisham, Yacob, Mohd Idzwan, Abu Seman, Mohamad Amir

“…Photography are used for many reasons.It has been used from capturing a wedding ceremony to documenting historical events in newspaper.Its also as a visual representation that highlight an act of seeing to establish subject matter in the surrounding.Many artists considered photography to be simple craft, with the camera selecting, composing, and capturing moments.In a communication process, photograph is used as medium of persuasion as it controls the emotions of the reviewer.Thus, this paper explores on the basic element and principle of art and design, in making an effective photography.This study will benefit the image maker and will give them a new style of making and producing mesmerizing photography to persuade a society.…”
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Contesting Forms of Knowledge in Policy Deliberation by Piyapong Boossabong, Pobsook Chamchong

“…The article demonstrates different forms of knowledge that shaped Bangkok’s flood policy, and explains how lay knowledge promoted by farmers, local communities, and Buddhist monks were successful in persuading policymakers and the wider public in their preferred policy option. …”
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Users’ Feedback about a Digital Well-being System by Esra KAHYA ÖZYİRMİDOKUZ, Eduard Alexandru STOICA, Kumru UYAR

“…We focus on the software features that persuade digital well-being system users to increase their happiness. …”
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Neutrosophic Sociogram Approach to Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps in Swift Language by R. Priya, Nivetha Martin

“…A comparative analysis is made between two approaches and the efficiency of the proposed approach is validated with an application to find the interrelationship between the persuading eleven factors of Technopreneurship. It was observed that the results obtained using the proposed approach is more compatible, feasible and simple than the conventional approach in making decisions on the implications between the factors. …”
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Aspects linguistiques de l’émigration langonnétaise vers l’Amérique by Jean-Yves Plourin, Mireille Cadic

“…This phenomenon, which was to change the economic and demographic make-up of an entire small region, began in the first half of the 19th century, but really took hold in 1881, when Nicolas Le Grand, from Roudouallec, persuaded two of his neighbours to leave with him. …”
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"Ageing youthfully" or the rhetoric of medical English in advertising by Marisa Díez Arroyo

“…This study examines how cosmetics brands adopt characteristics of medical English in their web sites as a rhetorical strategy to persuade consumers. From the joint perspective of rhetoric, understood as persuasive stylistic choices, and a relevance-theoretic approach to pragmatics, the present paper explains how social assumptions about "ageing youthfully" are successfully strengthened in this type of advertising thanks to the alliance with medicine. …”
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Technical Language as Evidence of Expertise by Andrei Moldovan

“…I discuss the pragmatic mechanism that underlies it, the quality of the evidence offered, and its capacity to persuade.…”
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Ferdo Lupša (1882–1945) – one of the first Western researchers of caves in Thailand by Andrej Kranjc

“…During his stay in Vienna, when he tried to persuade government to finance a polar expedition, he met Lange, a consul of Kingdom of Siam (now Thailand). …”
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Popularisierung im Dienst der Persuasion. by Gabriella Carobbio

“…Legal issues such as the constitutional freedom of religion or belief and the state monopoly on the use of force are clarified in order to give migrants basic knowledge of the German legal system and, at the same time, to persuade them that it is reasonable and necessary to respect the law. …”
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Mercy by Perry, A

“…But prosecutors pushed for “sentencing enhancements”: Jones was a leader of the conspiracy, they said, and she had perjured herself with “her false denials of guilt on the stand”. The judge was persuaded. He sentenced Jones to life in prison without the possibility of parole. …”