The Horsell's Mouth Politics, pedantry and personal interests

Here is the document I’ve been working to put together – it’s a mock Critical Reasoning Test for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Diploma. The real thing kicks off in about 10 days’ time, when I have four weeks to research and write two 3,000 essays along similar lines. It may be during that time that the blogging is slightly restricted but I’m going to structure my working patterns differently for the real thing that should allow for some time to keep it going.

Obviously I won’t be able to post the real answers when they are done because they will be going to be formally marked but the questions we get are likely to be similar. I actually found this question quite vague – does it refer to the act of studying persuasion, does it refer to one’s own study of persuasion or is the emphasis on the word “persuasion”, thereby making the study almost a redundancy. I opted for a mixture of the first two – I’m not actually all that happy with the answer I’ve given but I’ve learned a great deal from the experience of doing a mock.