Saturday, February 21, 2009
Week 5 Discussion 3
One concept that I found interesting and useful from Chapter 5 is everything related to audience adaption. I think that it is important because in order to give a successful speech, you must know how the audience is feeling towards your topic. If they seem bored, you must find ways to get them to pay attention and make them interested in your topic again. Observing the audience's facial expressions and adapting to the ways they are feeling is the key to a good speech. I tend to not look at the audience's reactions because it makes me nervous when I see them dozing off. I hope that while I am giving my speeches I can adapt to the audience on a personal level.
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I agree that audience observation is one of the more important topics in chapter five but it is also the most difficult. I mean it is easy to see if your audience is getting board but it is hard to adjust your speech to peak your interest. And also getting over the realization that you are not bring heard is a hard pill to swallow. But you can attempt to make sure that your audience doesn’t get bored by fine tuning the speech itself. Nevertheless it is important that you are aware of the way the audience is reacting to your speech.
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