Friday, September 19, 2008
Chapter 5, Question 3
Chapter five talks about properly preparing your speech to adapt to diverse audience. The most key part of the chapter in my opinion was understanding your speech demographic. It explains how to go about finding and relating your subject to not just one person but the whole class. Simply put everyone's different and when writing a speech you need to consider the entire audience/group effected. The chapter gave several examples of how to go about researching, analyzing, and choosing a topic. By using research methods such as surveys and audience analysis you can get a better understanding of what your listeners can, and can't relate to. It's crucial that you consider everyone's perspectives so that their comfortable with the information your providing. By being aware of a persons beliefs or his/her likes and dislikes you can pick either a neutral subject or one that you feel can be informative without offending or boring anyone. The chapter talks about how sometimes it's easy to tailor your speech to a crowd of your classmates because you already know quite a bit about them. However, through out life speeches are going to be given to plenty of people you know nothing about. So it's very important that your always analyzing your audience before given your speech!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Chapter 5, Question # 2
Audience analysis is a very important process in creating any speech. Its crucial to deciding what your going to say and how your going to relate to your audience. Analyzing your audience includes understanding what they can relate to and what interests them. Picking a topic needs to be thought out and possibly tossed around between you and others in your class. It's important that you don't pick a topic that might offend or upset someone. For example, talking about religion might be construed as preaching or forcing one's idea's on others. When writing a speech you can also consider handing out questionnaire's and getting feed back about your topic. However you don't want to just hand these out to your friends, try and pick people from different social circles.
In my speech I'm going to be talking about an international sport, water polo. For my speech I'm going to ask my peers about their favorite sports and try and describe water polo using other sports as examples. I'm also going to talk about what different area's of the world water polo is played and how it's important in history. I've already done a survey among some people in my classes simply asking them if they even know what the sport of water polo is, and then describing it briefly seeing if it intrigues them. These are just a few things I would use to help create a diverse and informing speech for others!
In my speech I'm going to be talking about an international sport, water polo. For my speech I'm going to ask my peers about their favorite sports and try and describe water polo using other sports as examples. I'm also going to talk about what different area's of the world water polo is played and how it's important in history. I've already done a survey among some people in my classes simply asking them if they even know what the sport of water polo is, and then describing it briefly seeing if it intrigues them. These are just a few things I would use to help create a diverse and informing speech for others!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Chapter 5, Question 1
DRINKING -
In the first video the speaker talks about drinking and how it's dangerous to the body and other people. He chose a very acceptable topic seeing as though he's addressing college students, a perfect demographic for his topic. The speaker had very good visual aids, including charts and population statistics. However I felt as if he used too many statistics and was just reading off the projector for a good few minutes. His eye contact was good but he wasn't very engaging vocally, using a monotone voice most of the time.
What I learned:
After watching part of his speech it's apparent that choosing a good topic for your demographic is important. Using visual aids is very important as well, however, using too many aids can be damaging. Eye contact is also extremely important while giving a speech, but without vocally engaging the listener isn't good enough.
LIGHT POLLUTION
In the second video the speaker introduces us to light pollution and it's effects on the earth. Her introduction was good, she introduced exactly what subjects she was going to address and gave examples. Unfortunately she used very little eye contact, staring mostly at her speech outline. You notice that she's nervous and wants the audience to appreciate her topic when she says "it's a real problem, not making it up." This could imply that she wasn't quite sure if the topic she picked fit her class demographic.
What I learned:
From her introduction on light pollution I found that it's very beneficial to your speech if address exactly what your going to talk about and site examples your going to address. I found that it's also very important to practice your speech before hand, and not just look down at your outline the whole time. You have to address the audience visually, and mentally. The last thing was posture and hand placement. It's very important to use your hands to compliment your speech.
In the first video the speaker talks about drinking and how it's dangerous to the body and other people. He chose a very acceptable topic seeing as though he's addressing college students, a perfect demographic for his topic. The speaker had very good visual aids, including charts and population statistics. However I felt as if he used too many statistics and was just reading off the projector for a good few minutes. His eye contact was good but he wasn't very engaging vocally, using a monotone voice most of the time.
What I learned:
After watching part of his speech it's apparent that choosing a good topic for your demographic is important. Using visual aids is very important as well, however, using too many aids can be damaging. Eye contact is also extremely important while giving a speech, but without vocally engaging the listener isn't good enough.
LIGHT POLLUTION
In the second video the speaker introduces us to light pollution and it's effects on the earth. Her introduction was good, she introduced exactly what subjects she was going to address and gave examples. Unfortunately she used very little eye contact, staring mostly at her speech outline. You notice that she's nervous and wants the audience to appreciate her topic when she says "it's a real problem, not making it up." This could imply that she wasn't quite sure if the topic she picked fit her class demographic.
What I learned:
From her introduction on light pollution I found that it's very beneficial to your speech if address exactly what your going to talk about and site examples your going to address. I found that it's also very important to practice your speech before hand, and not just look down at your outline the whole time. You have to address the audience visually, and mentally. The last thing was posture and hand placement. It's very important to use your hands to compliment your speech.
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