Audience analysis and audience adaptation is very important during the speech development process. Knowing and planning on how one is to approach their audience is crucial because it gives one an edge on how to relate to the audience. Like the chapter stated, it is important to take a diverse approach when speaking to audience because of differences. The main points to remember when addressing audiences is to know commonalities, have credible sources, support materials in accordance with specific audience groups, use common or appropriate language and make sure to keep the audience engaged throughout.
For the upcoming speech, my demonstrative speech on how to make a smoothie, I think audience analysis is fairly easy to do because we all have a few commonalities in this case. For example, we are all college students and as students, we must eat well to learn and retain information as best as possible. One way to do this is by eating healthy foods such as fruit and/or vegetables which often go into smoothies. This could be one point where most classmates might agree. I don't necessarily plan on doing a questionnaire on students' views on smoothies, but perhaps asking open-ended questions such as "Do you think smoothies are healthy?" or "Do you think incorporating fruits and vegetables is important to a balanced diet?" could be beneficial to getting more information from our classroom audience.
Smoothies would be a great way to approach anyone with and make new friends ;) But your right people do group together because they have commonalities. I never thought of it that way but if you can find something you and your audience have in common then you'll both be having fun giving your speech.
ReplyDeleteSmoothies are something we as Americans have in common. Even if someone doesn't like smoothies, they at least know what they are. I personally love smoothies, especially more tropical tasting ones like pineapple and mango! Smoothies is a topic that everyone can relate to, but not everyone knows how to make them. I cut my fruit and freeze some of the fruit instead of adding ice because I like my smoothies to be more thick and the ice eventually melts down, making the smoothie more watery. Adding Greek yogurt is a good way of adding protein and still keeping it healthy.
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