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Persuasive Discourse

• A Confrontation with Diversity: Communication and Culture in the 21st Century
  Explores the framework of "creolization" and its implications for the communication discipline. Examines social and cultural factors that could shape the nature and content of persuasion in the 21st century.
• Using Role Playing in Argument Papers to Deconstruct Stereotypes
  Describes a writing assignment through which students build an understanding of perspectives other than their own. Shows how students, using dice, can create the outlines of a character and, having thought about this character, can write a paper from that character's perspective.