Knowing Your Audience David Thurman BCOM/275 October 16th‚ 2011 Don Olsen Knowing Your Audience Knowing your audience is a critical component of public speaking. Understanding the group of people who are receiving the message is second in importance only to the message itself. A poor understanding of your audience can lead to a poor delivery of the information that you need to get across. In regards to the Chilean Copper Mine Collapse‚ there are many factors to take into consideration
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Audience Analysis: The Ugly Truth There are many different ways of speaking with different people. These different ways may be through a different language‚ slang‚ or simply with a different personality or demeanor. You wouldn’t want to go to the White house dressed as a hippie‚ and you wouldn’t want to go to a gang dressed up in a tuxedo. It is also possible to analyze writing and who audience is that the author is trying to target. In the story "The Ugly Truth about Beauty"‚ Dave Barry’s target
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How does Obama use rhetorical devices in his speech effectively to engage his audience? Throughout Obama’s speech he uses many different examples of rhetorical devices such as alliteration‚ personification‚ triad‚ allusion and an inclusive pronoun. Alliteration is used effectively in Obama’s speech. An example would be “depths of despair to the greatest heights of hope”. The fact that he goes from the worst to the best corrects the listener’s minds and provides an insight into just how good things
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the inspector arrives with announcement of Eva smiths death‚ and the involvement of each members of the family is progressively established. The structure becomes that of a wodnut‚ with the inspector slowly unraveling the history of Eva Smith. The audiences interest is sustained not only by progressively revelations but their desire to find out whom ultimately‚ was responsible for driving Eva smith to suicide. Paragraph 1During the 1930’s Priestley became very concerned about the consequences of social
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Reaching your intended audience is one of‚ if not the most important parts of getting a communication out. I will identify four different methods to reach an intended audience‚ and I will describe them and give examples of the method use. Another area of concern when getting your message to the indented audience is your budget. I will provide three different budget strategies a health educator could use when implementing a health communication plan. Now let’s get to the first method used to reach
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Throughout the play of Pygmalion‚ Higgins is portrayed to the audience in many ways. He is a well educated and intelligent man that‚ however‚ possesses horrendous manners and is socially inept. An example of this is shown when his own mother‚ Mrs Higgins‚ doesn’t want him in her house when she has company and also when she says that she doesn’t want to attend church the same time as him as he is rude. ‘You offend all my friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you.’ – Mrs Higgins. ‘He cant
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modulation‚audience awareness and presentation plan for successful oral presentation?ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS : Body language | **What is body language? | -- Eye contact‚ facial expressions‚ posture‚ movements‚ gestures.Why is it useful? It is natural and a part of communication. to clarify meaning; it is very visual to vent nervousness to maintain interest to emphasize The golden rule is "Be natural and relaxed!" | * Positive body language * eye contact to keep audiences’ attention
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Movies and television shows should included better role models for their audiences I’m sure it has happened plenty of times. When you finish watching a movie and afterwards feel so inspired. This is often when the movie hero was presented as someone we would like to be or has a personality that we admire. Sometimes it can be other characters that are shown to be “cool”‚ attractive‚ and popular that also inspires us to mimic their personality traits. Movies can also prompt us to try certain activities
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Alfieri tells the audience ‘Justice is very important here.’ How does Arthur Miller show the importance of Justice in the play? By stating in his opening speech of the play ‘Justice is very important here‚’ Alfieri opens the audiences minds to relate justice back to all the events in the book that occur. Throughout the play Arthur Miller shows the importance of justice mainly through Eddie and Marco’s behavior‚ building up to Eddies tragic death. Through Alfieri’s first speech‚ Miller allows
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psychosis inducing anti-depressants. As well as being a masterpiece of modern cinema‚ Donnie Darko is also an excellent example of modern tragedy‚ as defined by Northrop Frye’s Modal theory. Firstly‚ the movie takes place in the month of October‚ a subtle (though not necessarily intentional) link to the Modal theory in which Tragedy is connected to autumn. Secondly‚ Donnie Darko fits perfectly into the modern "tragic hero" description‚ he is a regular‚ upper-middle class teenager who is intelligent
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