Audience analysis and adaptation are very important to consider when writing and giving your speech. According to our textbook, audience analysis is obtaining and evaluating information about your audience in order to anticipate their needs and interests and design a strategy and respond to them. You can do this by finding out the information such as demographics, interests, and values of your audience before you write or give your speech, and then tailoring your speech to fit your audience. You should use this information to adapt your speech in order to make it more meaningful or interesting to you audience. This is very important because if you don’t consider your audience while making your speech then your audience may become very bored, or for some subjects, you might offend them in some way while giving your speech. You do not want to do this because you want yourself and your audience to have a positive outcome from your speech. I plan to use audience analysis while writing my speech by using the information that I have already receive from attending previous classes, such as the interests that some classmates have portrayed to me, and also knowing what time the class is at and judging the moods of my peers when I get there to adapt my speech to fit the needs of my audience.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Audience Analysis and adaptation
Audience analysis and adaptation are very important to consider when writing and giving your speech. According to our textbook, audience analysis is obtaining and evaluating information about your audience in order to anticipate their needs and interests and design a strategy and respond to them. You can do this by finding out the information such as demographics, interests, and values of your audience before you write or give your speech, and then tailoring your speech to fit your audience. You should use this information to adapt your speech in order to make it more meaningful or interesting to you audience. This is very important because if you don’t consider your audience while making your speech then your audience may become very bored, or for some subjects, you might offend them in some way while giving your speech. You do not want to do this because you want yourself and your audience to have a positive outcome from your speech. I plan to use audience analysis while writing my speech by using the information that I have already receive from attending previous classes, such as the interests that some classmates have portrayed to me, and also knowing what time the class is at and judging the moods of my peers when I get there to adapt my speech to fit the needs of my audience.
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I agree that audience analysis is extremely important. I noticed that you mentioned that it is also important to employ audience analysis so as not to offend people. This makes sense because if you exercise audience analysis you are more likely to know what type of speech would or would not be appropriate for your particular audience. However, because there is such a great diversity among audience members you can't always be sure that no one will get offended. This shouldn't be a problem though as long as the speaker is respectful and uses proper etiquette and ethics. Also, with extremely controversial topics you are bound to offend someone. It is pretty much inevitable. So if you don't want to offend you should just be respectful and avoid controversy (although avoiding controversy may not always be possible lol).
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point about audience analysis, about considering your audience when you create your speech. I didnt think about it that in depth at first, I thought in general an interesting topic would suffice, but if you cant keep their attention and keep it entertaining then whats the point. I definitely think having the advantage of speaking in front of our classmates will help us to keep the speeches interesting as we all are hoping to achieve the same goal.. getting through the speech, being informative and keeping our audience awake. Regardless, im looking forward to our demo speeches; I think they will be great!
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