Personal experience

One particular incident where I had to persuade others to accept my point of view was just a few days ago when I had to persuade my chapter executive members to accept a new policy. I used an emotional appeal to persuade them to understand and accept my way of thinking. It was difficult but I finally got through to them. They understood the seriousness of the policy and how it would take a toll on all of us. Examples of an emotional appeal was bringing up friends and how we could not be a group of close friends if we could not stand for the same things. This pulled on their emotional strings and got them to agree that the policy would put us all on the same page and eventually creating a better friendship. The difficulties were when I had to defend my position as well as tell them I felt one way to keep them satisfied. I had to bite my own tongue and stand for one thing when I believed another. In the end, it all turned out ok and I can still have my opinion but keep it to myself. I used deductive reasoning and used specific events to help my argument for the new policy. I also used a syllogism becuase my argument had a major premise, minor premise and a conclusion. And last, I did use inductive reasoning by stating my claim and supporting it with specific examples of why we could have prevented certain sitautions in the past by having this policy.