Tips

Persuasion tasks are often combined with consensus building tasks, although not always. The key difference is that with persuasion tasks, students work on convincing an external audience of a particular point of view, as opposed to the persuasion and accomodation that occurs within a group in a consensus building task.

The key to a well done persuasion task is that:

• a plausible audience for the message is identified whose point of view is different or at least neutral or apathetic.

Examples

• Example persuasion tasks include a recreation of The Amistad Case.
• In the Rock the Vote WebQuest, students design an ad campaign to encourage voting by young adults.
• In Conflict Yellowstone Wolves, the task is to influence government policy.