I tried paying really close attention to the “Connect Your
Topic to Your Audience” part of chapter 13. For my informational speech, I’m going
to be talking about an issue that is often really difficult to communicate to
audiences. I’m talking about environmental science and though I haven’t quite
narrowed down my topic yet (I’m leaning towards ocean acidification) I know
that the content of my speech will have to be presented in a specific manner so
as not to distance the audience from the issue. The example that the book gives
about connecting to your audience isn’t going to be as useful to me as it might
be to other speakers. Ocean acidification isn’t something that average people
think about or interact with (consciously) on a daily basis – it’s something
that they’ve probably heard of or learned about, but people tend to forget that
it is a current and pertinent dilemma. I’m just hoping to take those lessons
that the Speech Buddies videos and the textbook provide and do my best to
connect this issue to my audience.
It is interesting that you talk about connecting your ideas to the audience. I think that sometimes it can be hard to do and that often you might have to tell the audience, how this topic relates to them and why they should listen. If you look at introductions and conclusions, there are parts were you make your point as to why people should listen. Why it is relevant. There is a part in the conclusion that is for reviewing your purpose that is all about, why the speech was important and why the audience needs to know about the topic you were informing them about.
ReplyDeleteI am very interested to see which specific topic that you choose for your environmental science related informative speech. I think that given a lot of the information that has come to the forefront in recent years, the environment and its health as it continues to be negatively impacted by the human race is of particular interest to many people, myself included. I hope that you will find to your surprise that most of the audience is particularly interested and captivated by your topic, even if it is something that they may not be previously cognisant of. After all, we are all effected by the ever-changing state of the natural world that we live in. Good luck in choosing your specific speech topic, I know that sometimes the hardest part can be coming up with an idea that you are happy with and doing the very first parts of writing out or planning out your speech. If you can just get past that I am sure that everything will turn out splendidly for you.
ReplyDeleteI am sure that connecting a topic like that to your audience will be a little difficult. It is something that many people are not really aware of. I thought about it a bit though and I was thinking that because your topic could be surprising to a lot of people, maybe they will connect to your topic. It is something that is very important to many people whether they realize it or not. In fact, anything pertaining to the health of our planet should be worth listening to. I am hoping that my topic will be easier to connect to my audience because it is something that affected many of us just recently.
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