Public Speaking Handbook

96 6 AnAlyzing your Audience Learning Objectives 6.1 List three steps in becoming an audience-centered speaker. 6.2 Describe in ...

Becoming an Audience-centered Speaker 6 .1 97 the screwworm/castration speech. The parents were relieved. Fortunately, the boys ...

98 6.2 AnAlyzing your Audience When you think of your audience, don’t think of some undifferentiated mass of people waiting to ...

gathering information about your Audience 6.2 99 Gathering Information Informally The simplest way to gather information about ...

100 6.2 AnAlyzing your Audience Figure 6.2 demographic Audience-Analysis Questionnaire. you can modify this sample questionnair ...

Analyzing information about your Audience 6.3 101 Analyzing Information about Your Audience 6.3 Explain how to analyze informat ...

102 6.3 AnAlyzing your Audience as you speak to others or join group conversations. For example, most of us do not deliberately ...

Adapting to your Audience 6.4 103 characteristics and preferences, you are looking for general ways in which they are alike or ...

104 6.4 AnAlyzing your Audience can have a dog in the apartment.” Your message to your roommate is, “No worries about you getti ...

Analyzing your Audience before you Speak 6.5 105 Analyzing Your Audience before You Speak 6.5 Develop methods of analyzing your ...

106 6.5 AnAlyzing your Audience audiences of different age levels. Your credibility as a speaker—how positively you are perceiv ...

Analyzing your Audience before you Speak 6.5 107 based only on the biological sex profile of your listeners could lead you to a ...

108 6.5 AnAlyzing your Audience Caucasian or Latino/Latina. One geneticist, however, has concluded that there is much more vari ...

Analyzing your Audience before you Speak 6.5 109 pOLItIcAL grOupS Are members of your audience active in politics? Know- ing wh ...

110 6.5 AnAlyzing your Audience WOrk grOupS Most professions give rise to organizations or associations to which professional p ...

Analyzing your Audience before you Speak 6.5 111 world, centuries-old traditions of acknowledging status differences still are ...

112 6.5 AnAlyzing your Audience • Virtually every state in the United States has experienced a dramatic in- crease in foreign ...

Analyzing your Audience before you Speak 6.5 113 encourage their children or grandchildren to consider his proposal. He focused ...

114 6.5 AnAlyzing your Audience • Use facial expressions to express emotions. • Have rules for etiquette. • Experience em ...

Analyzing your Audience before you Speak 6.5 115 Psychological Audience Analysis Demographic information lets you make some use ...