Essay 1 Prompt: For this essay, you will write a claim of fact (a claim of fact asserts that something is true) on the topic of perception management. The claim of fact is supported by factual information such as statistics, examples, and testimony. Different from many of the other essays, this one requires you only to explore a topic not choose a side or propose a solution. You will not indulge your personal feelings, but rather demonstrate that there is a false reality that people believe in as well as an actual reality when it comes to your topic. Perception management is defined as the carefully choreographed manipulation of the beliefs and feelings of large numbers of people. Going beyond marketing and spin, perception management uses fear, anger, distortion, disinformation, and deceit whatever it takes, including creating martyrs for the cause, faking enemy threats, lying to the media, destroying documents, etc. to achieve its goals. Those goals are always to influence peoples beliefs and behavior, typically toward one ou
tcome rather than the other (Facione and Gittens 5). Prompt: Explore the concept of perception management as it applies to a topic of your choosing: What perception do you suspect is being portrayed and what do you think the actual reality is? You will research the reality of your topic as well as the false reality (perception). Your goal for this assignment is to write a claim of fact that persuades the audience that the perception you have identified is false. For the reality sections, you must find academic/scholarly sources to help support your claim. However, this essay is unique in that when it comes to demonstrating the perception of your topic, you can use any source you want to, credible or not. After all, the false reality is perpetuated by false information.
The essay can only include scholarly sources! Ive attached some that support the topic greatly but their should be at least a minimum of 6 scholarly sources. Ive attached a short introduction to help direct you with this topic but please feel free to include your own ideas.