Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.

The truth is that mere facts and information often fail to move people. Yet when we are in a disagreement, we often forget ...

The discussion centers on the effective use of ethical persuasion in clinical settings. The main focus is on encouraging patients to agree with treatment recommendations. The approach emphasizes that ...

As defined by Friestad and Wright (1994), “persuasion knowledge” is personal knowledge about persuasion attempts that consumers develop and use whenever they believe they are targets of persuasion. A ...

And the arts of persuasion are inevitably literary and, specifically, rhetorical. It is an arduously learned skill to write in the way that Nature deems acceptable.

A persuasion trigger is any marketing tactic that convinces people to take action that grows your brand, and there are proven methods that get people to say "yes." ...

‘Persuasion’ Review: An Effervescent Dakota Johnson Gives Jane Austen Drama a Cheeky Retelling. Carrie Cracknell's adaptation is indeed fun and contemporary, ...

Netflix's Persuasion has been criticized for modernizing a classic. So how does one adapt Jane Austen in 2022? CBC News spoke with writers and scholars — all superfans of the 19th-century ...

The trailer for “Persuasion,” the debut feature from the British theater director Carrie Cracknell, landed in mid-June. Social media attacks, led by fans of the Jane Austen novel on which the ...

“Persuasion,” the novel, is a text that lends itself to little irony. It is an earnest tale of love lost and reclaimed, not so much a comedy or a sweeping romance as it is a character study.

Persuasion is fundamentally different because it relies on understanding what smoking does to the human body. Someone who’s persuaded of its dangers has an incentive to stop that’s entirely ...