Your assignment is to write an essay--addressed to your instructor--that synthesizes from your reading of Hauser what you consider the essential elements of a workable theory of persuasion. The essay should present your theory of persuasion in a way that persuades your instructor that you understand and can use in your own writing the material of the first four lessons of this course. The essay you write should be about a thousand words--four double-spaced pages. That is short. You will need to be highly selective of the ideas you include, and you will need to synthesize them well into a coherent and focused set of connected principles that work as a method for effective persuasion in writing. The essay should be correctly written; errors in usage or format damage your ethos as a conscientious and capable student. It should document your sources simply but clearly by mentioning the name of the source (for example, Hauser, Aristotle, or Burke) in the sentence and including the page..