Autumn Beddington
Midterm
1. a) Demographics is knowing the characteristics who you are communicating with and arranging your speech in order to better communicate with that group. b) Psychographics is knowing the personality of the crowd and using that to better communicate with the audience.
2. Understanding demographics and psychographics of the target audience will make your speech more effective because you are able to relate to your audience. It will be easier to address your audience if you know their characteristics and personalities you can make your speech accordingly.
3. The importance of a good introduction is to capture the audience. The reason it’s important to capture the audience is because it decides whether or not they are going to pay attention to your speech or not.
4. When creating an introduction you want to start with the attention grabber to hook the audience. Once you have everyone’s attention you should present your thesis so they can clearly grasp what your topic is. After that briefly summarize what you are going to talk about during your
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If it doesn’t have any effect on them why should they listen or care. You want to capture their attention as soon as you start. One way to do this is to trigger an emotion, the way to do this is to know your target audience and know what is most important to them. Another way is to when you begin establish a problem something the audience might not have been aware of and that has an effect on them. Once you have a problem you can tell them the cause of this problem and finally tell them how to change it. You should keep in mind that you aren’t going to be able to persuade everyone so your target audience shouldn’t be people that are extremely against what you are trying to persuade it should be the people that are neutral or slightly against what you are
1) Demographic is the statistics of the human population using variables such as age, income, education, religion ethnicity ECT.
To begin with the introduction, “A good introduction must perform five important functions. 1. Get the audience’s attention. 2. Introduce the subject. 3. Give the audience a reason to listen. 4. Establish your credibility. 5. Preview your main idea’s.” (Beebe, pg.117)
The introduction should be written out word for word. Use complete sentences in your outline. The introduction should include the following:
Perhaps, also wondering if it actually will be informative for an individual can be something very intimidating. Kevin chose to talk about the World cup, something that has never brought much entertainment to me. The way that Kevin was talking, with so much passion shown to his audience caught my attention, not to mention the humor he used along with it. Presenting a speech to the class is as if one was having an ongoing conversation with strangers and letting them know why the topic brings so much interest to you. Not to mention, one must seem into it to not lose the audience interest, which is what Kevin did. Kevin used hand gestures letting the audience or perhaps myself know that he was actually meaning what he was
A persuasive message tries to convince the audience to agree to the speaker’s position. For instance, the goal of persuasion is to lead. On account of this, persuasion is just a logical and well supported arguments; an argument is the enounce of the orator’s position with the aid of the rhetorical strategies (logos, ethos and pathos).But the question is how to be a successful persuasive speaker? The response is easy, convince the audience or change their behaviour without using any strategy that violate any of the ethical principles.
Demographics: The audience is demographically characterized as having both male and female Michigan State University students within the age group of 17 and 24. As well as being ethnically diverse. As a result, I think that the demographic of the audience will have great influence on the speech. Both the audience and myself fall in the same demographic group, which allows me to have a connection with the audience. Making it easier to make my point.
You can see how in this persuasive speech outline the topic and thesis are stated in the introduction, the reasons for giving blood are the main points in the body of the outline and the conclusion contains the call to action. Other ways of organizing a persuasive speech outline are "problem--solution", comparative advantages, criteria satisfaction, and motivational sequence.
[Appeal to your audience. Leave a remark or meaningful quote that they can remember, bring your audience back to the introduction story, leave them with something to think about and move them – emotionally and physically!]
The Informative speech was much harder for me to grasp on to right from the beginning, I knew what I need to do in general to be successful but my topic was so broad I had a hard time narrowing it down how I wanted to present the information. My introduction was
Public speaking is a topic that most people dread. The anxious feeling of getting in front of people and presenting is avoided by many people at all costs. Although public speaking has a bad reputation, when done right, it can be a very valuable skill to have. Recently, I attended a presentation that was given by Ann Walker, a member of the National Alliance for Mental Health (NAMI). This presentation was focused on making more people aware about mental illnesses and the effects of them, which was using the method of an Informative Speech. As said in it’s name, the purpose of this kind of presentation is to “Increase your audience’s knowledge of a particular topic or teach them something new” (Hosek & Crawford, 2016, p. 74), which is stated in our student guidebook. It was held in a very casual setting, consisting of a college classroom holding about 50 seats. Before Walker started presenting her speech, she asked the audience what most of us were majoring in.
The context of the persuasion of the audience exists in the modern era when people are reluctant to experience outdoor events. The targeted audiences of the presentation of promoting going to theater are the peer classmates and the University of California, Irvine undergraduate students who prefer watching television shows at home. The chosen audience of peer classmates attributes to the fact that the presentation is directly presented to them so the classmates are the primary audience that my presentation should persuade. The persuasion of the peers acts as the standard of my presentation, determining the effectiveness of my presentation to the targeted audience. The targeted audiences of the college students in University of California, Irvine are the people that the presentation should aim at convincing because the purpose is to popularize the trend of watching live shows and appeal the students to spend leisure time going to theater more
1. The introduction starts with a fairly general opening statement which introduces readers to your topic (or
I have also learned about different types of audiences and speeches including persuasive, informative, entertaining and delivering special occasion speeches. It came to my attention that whenever I was making these presentations or speeches, I needed to do so with confidence, consistence and practice before the actual presentation and completely eliminate the element of panic. It was also clear that capturing the attention of the audience and engaging them in the whole process, it was necessary to have a very strong introduction and also try and use visuals to deliver the message. It was therefore vital to respect each person’s diversity and cultural values (Lucas, 2011).
By using psychographics we can segment the market into groups based on social class, lifestyle and personality characteristics.
In order to successfully deliver an oral presentation such as a speech, the speaker must follow certain procedures to ensure his message can be conveyed clearly. Vast amounts of research are essential in order to acquire the knowledge necessary to be able to speak about a topic comfortably and answer any questions the audience might have during the course of the presentation. After acquiring such knowledge about the topic of the presentation the speaker will feel more confident, confidence is key in delivering speeches and other oral presentations because it makes the speaker look more credible and trustworthy. Lastly, the speaker must be fluid and eloquent with his words, the speaker must be able to sound clear and crisp while delivering their