Persuasion (WEEK 7):

What is persuasion?

A process aimed at changing a person's (or a group's) attitude or behavior towards some event, idea, object, or another person (s), by using written or spoken words to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a combination of them. 
Here, the word "persuasion" is used in some sentences in order to see clearly its meaning:
- He was blessed with the gift of persuasion and could convince anybody of almost anything with little effort. 
- The salesman was trying to use persuasion to get the customer to sign on to the monthly subscription magazine he was trying to sell. 

And some expressions of persuading: 

• Give it a try
• Try them on
• Believe me, you will have fun times
• You won't regret it
• This is once in your lifetime, don't waste it
• You wouldn't find them twice
• You will never feel sorry about it
• Just this once!
• You're not going to let me down, are you?
• How can I persuade you to...?
• Why don't you...?

But also, I have found a dialogue of persuading:

Mark                : Anthony. What are you doing this evening? How about a movie?

Anthony          : Which one?

Mark                : There’s a good Indonesian movie at 21^st theatre.

Anthony          : you know I don’t like Indonesian movies.

Mark                : Oh, Come on. I’ll sure you’ll enjoy this one.

Anthony          : I don’t enjoy Indonesian movies. I can’t follow the conversation fully.

Mark                : So what? We’re not Indonesian. Most of us are not able to follow the

               conversation fully. But there are so many other things you can enjoy.

Anthony          : That’s true.

Mark                : Then why don’t you come?

Anthony          : All right. I’ll be at the theatre at 7. Is that OK?

Mark                : Fine. See you at 7.

Anthony          : See you.

(From the webpage: http://howtolearnenglishofexpressing.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/expressing-of-persuading-someone.html)

Find a text where a hypothesis is discussed: 

Plant life cycles underwent fundamental changes during the initial colonization of the land in the Early Palaeozoic, shaping the direction of evolution. Fossils reveal unanticipated diversity, including new variants of meiotic cell division and leafless gametophytes with mycorrhizal-like symbioses, rhizoids, vascular tissues, and stomata. Exceptional fossils from the 407-Ma Rhynie chert (Scotland) play a key role in unlocking this diversity. These fossils are reviewed against progress in our understanding of the plant tree of life and recent advances in developmental genetics. Combining data from different sources sheds light on a switch in the life cycle that gave rise to the vascular plants. One crucial step was the establishment of a free-living sporophyte from one that was an obligate matrotroph borne on the gametophyte. It is proposed that this difficult evolutionary transition was achieved through expansion of gene expression primarily from the gametophyte to the sporophyte, establishing a now extinct life cycle variant that was more isomorphic than heteromorphic. These changes also linked for the first time in one developmental system rhizoids, vascular tissues and stomata, putting in place the critical components that regulate transpiration and forming a physiological platform of primary importance to the diversification of vascular plants.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'The Rhynie cherts: our earliest terrestrial ecosystem revisited'.

In this text, the hypothesis is the origin of the vascular plant life cycle. 

(From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29254970).

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