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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is conducted to find out the types of persuasive strategies produced by James Farmer Jr. and Samantha Booke in “The Great Debaters”. The main purpose of this study is to find out the differences and/or similarities of the persuasive strategies used by male and female debater in “The Great Debaters”. The writer use the theories from Beebe & Beebe (2009) and Wood (2009) as the main theory in his research. The type of persuasive strategies are using logic and evidence to persuade and using emotion to persuade. Moreover, teh writer also uses gender as the social factor in this research. Finally, the writer found that both James Farmer Jr. and Samantha Booke use both Beebe & Beebe’s persuasive strategies. However, James Farmer Jr. uses using logic and evidence to persuade (39,6%) and using emotion to persuade (39,6%) strategy equally, while Samantha tend to use using logic and evidence to persuade strategy (51,5%) than using emotion to persuade strategy (42,8%). Furthermore, the writer also found that the persuasive strategies that were used by James Farmer Jr. and Samantha Booke are not really influenced by their gender.