By: LAUREN LANDIN
Staff Writer
Characteristics that make a person persuasive are when they can back up their answers with facts, have a comforting tone of voice, and contain persistent eye contact with the person to who they are speaking. I feel as though the evidence is the most important to be persuaded because it helps prove the answer or statement someone is making. Characteristics that make someone not persuasive are no evidence, an aggressive tone of voice, aggressive words, and disengaging eye contact. My mom does a fantastic job at persuading me no matter what the context is. For example, for college, I really wanted to do two years of college at COS and then transfer but my mom convinced me that going to Fresno State is a better opportunity. I would describe my mom as factual, persuasive, and very calm. I say this because she always finds herself being right but not in an aggressive way but in a happy medium type of way.