Belief Value and Attitude

Persuadee’s beliefs:  all students must complete all the assignments and turn them in.

Persuadee’s values:   time, completeness of the assignments.

Persuadee’s Attitude: all students must turn in their completed assignment to their professor.

Plan:  I want to persuade my professor to extend the time for my assignment.

Dear professor,

I am a fourth-grade student at XYZ University pursuing a bachelors' degree in philosophy. I am a student in your research class, and you gave us an assignment that was to be turned in today before 2300hrs.

I am writing to humbly request you to allow me more time to complete my assignment and turn. I understand it is an academic rule that all the students must turn in their completed assignments on time and away from the deadline. According to the time you allocated for my assignment, the submission deadline is 4 hours away. I have not started typesetting yet and owing to the amount of work to be done and the typesetting involved,...