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Chapter 4 Knowing Your Audeince
Chapter 4 Knowing Your Audeince
Cheryl Hamilton
5th Edition
Chapter
Cheryl Hamilton, Ph.D.
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Key Ideas
Define Audience Analysis
Explain why audience Analysis should be the
first step in a speech
Discuss the four ways to analyze an audience
Identify strategies for collecting information
Needs
(safety
and social)
Attitudes
(anti-divorce
Beliefs
(“Children are better
off with two parents”)
Values
(family
security)
Friendly
-Heard you speak before
-Positive to what you are saying
-Sold on your topic
Neutral
-Consider themselves objective
-Open to new information
-Looking for logic and facts
Friendly audience
-Any pattern of organization
-Audience participation
-Warm, enthusiastic delivery
-Verbal and visual supports
Neutral Audience
- Problem-solution organization
-Controlled, authoritative delivery
-Expert, non-flashy verbal and visual supports
Cheryl Hamilton
5th Edition
Chapter
Cheryl Hamilton, Ph.D.
4
Copyright © 2011 Cengage Learning Chapter 4 1.16