Final Assignment Week 5

Final Paper

Persuasive Campaign for Online Education

Design a persuasive campaign aimed at promoting online education. In explaining your campaign, you must identify the following items:

• The campaign’s central message or slogan
• The target audience for the campaign
• The medium used to promote the campaign
• The intended persuasion outcome for the campaign

After providing the details of your campaign, you must explain why you believe this campaign will be effective using at least three of the persuasion theories that you learned in this course. You will need to cite at least four (4) outside sources besides the textbook. Material from those sources can be used to support details of your campaign or the persuasion theories that you reference in the paper. The paper must contain an introduction with thesis statement, at least five body paragraphs, and a conclusion. For a review of how to create these elements of an essay, visit the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. The explanation of the campaign should be no more than 1000 words out of the total word count.

Please note that if you are a Communications Studies major, this assignment will be an element in your graduation portfolio. If you have not set up your portfolio yet, you may do so by selecting Portfolium from the menu in your classroom on the left-hand side. If you have set up your portfolio, you can access it the same way. You will be working with your portfolio extensively in the Communications capstone course, COM480. If you are a Communications Studies major, please add this paper to your portfolio. Other students are not required to do this. View the Portfolium tutorial for guidance.

For your reference, these are the elements that are required to be included in your portfolio:

• COM101 Week 1 assignment “Perspective on Communication” and Final Paper “Personal Communication Skills Assessment”
• COM223 Final Paper “Persuasive Campaign for Online Education” (This Paper)
• COM325 Final Paper
• COM345 Final Project
• COM355 Final Paper “The Future of Communication Technology”
• COM370 Week 1 assignment “Personal Cultural Profile” and Final Project “Oral History Interview”
• COM425 Final Paper
• SPE103 A speech of your choice from the class

The Final Paper

• Must be 2500 to 3000 words long in double-spaced pages (do not include title and references pages in word count) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must include a separate title page (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least four scholarly or other credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in text (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.