Sondra Roberts Oral Communication Chapter 6 2-05-2012

1- You have to be remaining true to yourself and speak ethically while adapting your message to the goals, values, and attitudes of your audience. And your need to keep several questions in mind when you work on your speeches. 2- Egocentrism- the tendency of people to be concerned above all with their own values, beliefs, and well-being. First they mean your listeners will hear and judge what you say on the basis of what they already know and believe second, they mean you musty relate your message to your listeners. 3- Age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, racial- ethnic-cult-viral background, group membership. And its important being one, identifying the general demographic features of the audience, two, gauging the importance of those features to a particular speaking situation. 4- Situational audience- analysis usually builds on demographic analysis. And the factors are, size, physical setting, disposition toward the topic, disposition toward the speaker, disposition toward the occasion. 5- Ask your contact where you can find out more about the groups history and mission. 6- Plan the questionnaire carefully to elicit precisely the information you need, use all three types of questions-fixed after native-scale and open-ended, make sure the questions are clear and unambiguous, keep the questionnaire relatively brief. 7- Before assessing how your audience is likely to respond to what you say in your speech, adjusting what you say to make it clear, during, you might learn that the audience will be much longer or smaller then you had anticipated, or that the amount of time available for you, speech has been cut in half because a previous speaker has droned on for too long.

Sondra Roberts Oral Communication Chapter 7 2-05-2012

1- About thinking about your post experiencer- gathering material from yourself- you can find many supporting materials for your speeches. 2- Librarians, the catalogue, reference works, newspaper and periodical databases, academic databases. 3- Search engines, specialized research resources, evaluating internet documents. 4- Before the interview, during the interview, after the interview. Then there is the othe kind of interview, the journalists. 5- Once you gather the pieces, you have to decide how they fit together. The more likely you are to get the pieces to fit just right. 6- Preliminary bibliography- a list compiled early in the research process of works that look as if they might contain helpful information about a speech. To get more information about it. 7- Take plenty of notes, record notes in a consistent format, make a separate entry for each note, and distinguish among direct quotations.