What Is Informative, Persuasive and Argumentative Communication?

What is informative, persuasive and argumentative
communication?
Informative Communication
Informative communication is a pro-active approach, rather
than a reactive or ad hoc response as issues crop up. Being proactive
can avoid problems that arise from an “information vacuum”.
Informative Communication is more on giving informations, facts, or
upadates.
Persuasive Communication
Persuasive communication is persuading others to understand
what one is trying to communicate. Persuasive communication has
one core purpose and that is to get the readers to support, believe,
and act in favour of presenter.
Argumentative Communication
Argumentative communication is a well-known modern
approach in making decisions that considers real argumentations
where rational communicators do the best they can to justify their
standpoints in a certain context. This is considered to be
argumentative communication, the art of persuading based on
reason, on facts and not emotions.
What is History? How do Historians study the past as contrasted with Non-historians?
History is the study of change over time, and it covers all aspects of human society. Political, social,
economic, scientific, technological, medical, cultural, intellectual, religious and military
developments are all part of history. Usually professional historians specialize in a particular aspect
of history, a specific time period, a certain approach to history or a specific geographic region. Non-
historians often say that “history repeats itself” or that “things were always this way.” History cannot
repeat itself because history is not a living, thinking being. History is an intellectual discipline
practiced by historians who try to make sense of the past. Because history is about change, nothing
was ever “always” a certain way. Non-historians often romanticize the past and speak of the “good
old days” when they believe that things were generally better than at present. Conversely, some see
history exclusively as a story of progress with everything constantly improving. People of all eras
have made great achievements and committed terrible blunders; so processes of historical change
cannot be categorized as either simple progress or regression. Historical processes involve complex
relations between interrelated factors. Non-historians derive information mainly from television,
movies, and the internet as well as some books or magazines. They generally accept any sources
uncritically as long as the source is interesting. Historians know that all sources, even those original
to a particular historical time period, have some biases, omissions, contradictions, or various other
limitations. That does not mean that such sources are completely invalid and useless; rather it
means that historians have to know and study much to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of
different sources. Historians who write history emphasize the value of primary sources, that is those
sources actually dating from a particular time period, while understanding the limitations of such
sources. Nonhistorians read books or watch documentaries, while historians do that plus go to
archives in search of original records. [Historians who study non-English speaking regions must learn
and use foreign languages.] Historians who write list all the sources that they have used in footnotes
and bibliographies in their works. This helps other scholars who are interested to find those sources,
and it shows that the writer is careful, thorough, and honestly giving credit for the origin of the
writer’s information. Providing footnotes and a bibliography is how historians demonstrate their
methodology and support their conclusions. Non-historians assume that historians have always
approached history the same way. Historians know that the philosophy and methodology of history
have changed over time and will keep changing. Many different interpretations of all historical topics
exist. Historians must work to recognize the difference between facts and interpretations in their
field. Historiography refers to the history, philosophy and methodology of history. Historians must
be familiar with the historiography of their particular area of study. Non-historians often make broad
generalizations about people, ideas, events, or time periods in history. Historians tend to focus more
on the specific, detailed developments that underpin the generalizations, and sometimes question
or reject the generalizations themselves. Non-historians may assume that time periods are fixed and
absolute, whereas historians have various ways of organizing history thematically and
chronologically. Periodization, to historians, is just a convenient form of broad organization,
especially useful for course listings in university catalogs and subject headings in library catalogs. No
historian can be 100% objective, but historians try to recognize their own limitations and biases.
Historians try not to place the values, beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes of the present onto the topics
they study. Historians try to understand their topics in the context of how and why people of that
era thought and behaved, and not how people think and act today

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