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PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES USED IN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEBATING CHAMPIONSHIP DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
This research discusses persuasive strategies and aims to find out the use
of persuasive strategies by debate participants at the National University Debating
Championship 2020 & 2021. This research used Beebe & Beebe‟s theory of
persuasive strategies with descriptive qualitative methods and note-taking as an
instrument. This research was carried out to gain a deeper understanding of the
kinds of persuasive strategies and their usage in the debate area. The findings
show that the debaters used various persuasive strategies including all kinds of
Logic and Evidence, as well as some Emotions. However, the most frequently
used by all debaters is Emotion, specifically hope and use concrete examples that
help the listener to visualize what they describe. Nonetheless, the amount of
Emotion used by the debater does not guarantee the team to be the winner of the
competition. Yet, the quality of persuasive strategies used by the debaters can be
the consideration for the team to be the winner of the debate competition.
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