About this Book

This textbook was created out of a need for open educational resources for students in undergraduate persuasion courses. This open educational resource provides a broad survey of social-scientific theory and research on persuasive communication.

The textbook is a collaborative effort including theory summaries and examples co-authored and/or written with my incredibly talented undergraduate and graduate students. This inclusion of student voices serves to promote the social justice inherent to many open educational resources (see Lambert, 2018). Representational justice in particular refers to actively inviting different individuals, groups, and cultures to be involved in the creation of openly sourced knowledge (Lambert, 2018). This open educational resource project that includes students as creators of open-educational content enables those students to represent themselves, their lived experiences, and applications relevant to them as students today.

This book will be updated regularly. Any errata should be sent to akworthington@alaska.edu.

References

Lambert, S. R. (2018). Changing our (dis) course: A distinctive social justice aligned definition of open education. Journal of Learning for Development, 5(3), 225-244.