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Author’s Influence Three important techniques authors use to influence your thinking

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Author’s Influence . Three important techniques authors use to influence your thinking. Bias. When a person/advertiser/media entity displays their favoritism of one person, product, mindset, set of values, etc. over its opposition What are some common biases middle schoolers might have?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Author’s Influence Three important techniques authors use to influence your thinking

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Bias

•When a person/advertiser/media entity displays their favoritism of one person, product, mindset, set of values, etc. over its opposition•What are some common biases

middle schoolers might have?

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Bias ExamplesFOX

Accused of conservative bias

• http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-reporting/index.html

MSNBCAccused of liberal bias

• http://tv.msnbc.com/

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Propaganda

• This is a technique that is used to convince people of what they should think or do. This is a way of “selling” people on an idea.• This technique uses specific words to make

themselves look like the right/righteous/only good choice and make their opponent look like the wrong/evil/obviously bad choice.• This technique might use images to make

themselves look good/wholesome while making their opponent look evil/scary.

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Propaganda Examples

Hitler

•http://youtu.be/tl9aqZk4kFU

Hunger Games

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Stereotyping

• This technique takes a quality of an individual or a portion of the population and applies it to everyone in the group.•What common stereotypes do you

know?

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Stereotyping Examples• Child Gender Roles• “Boys will be boys”

• Shallow or Incompetent Male• http://

youtu.be/AeJdi-ePB9E

• Racial Stereotypes

• Domesticated Female• “Choosy moms

choose Jiff.”• “Choosy moms

and dads choose Jiff”