Part Four:Speaking Activities
1.Suppose you are an honor graduate with excellent academic records,rich experience in social activities,and a tempting job offer in hand.You are now invited to give a speech to the freshmen before you leave campus about how to spend the college life.What will you talk about?
2.For this speech,please design and circulate among freshmen an audience-analysis questionnaire.Use all the three kinds of questions discussed in the chapter:fixed-alternative,scale,and open-ended.After you have tabulated results of the questionnaire,please finish Exercise 3.
3.Based on the audience-analysis questionnaire in Exercise 2,please complete the following worksheet.
Audience-Analysis Worksheet
Topic:How to spend the college life
Specific purpose:____________________
Central idea:____________________
Target audience:freshmen
External factors analysis
Audience size:____________________
Physical setting:____________________
Internal factors analysis(1.demographic traits)
Age:____________________
Gender:____________________
Education:____________________
Cultural background:____________________
Internal factors analysis(2.disposition toward the topic)
Interest in the topic:____________________
Knowledge of the topic:____________________
Attitude toward the topic:____________________
4.Based on the audience-analysis worksheet in Exercise 3,what would you do to make your speech an audience-centered one?