Thursday, April 23, 2009
Chapter 14 Topic of Interest
A topic that I found very interesting was persuading different types of audiences. I thought about this topic a lot because I want all of my audience members to know that I have considered each perspective of my topic in great depth. The topic for my next speech is about the prevention of teenage pregnancy. Although I have many reasons and beliefs to discourage teenage pregnancy, I am aware that there are cultures that have fixed marriages and children often become pregnant at a young age. I respect that completely because it is a cultural tradition, and I want my audience to be aware of that. It is important to tell the audience the side that I am taking, but it is also important to stress the different perspectives that other audience members my have on my topic. It is difficult to incorporate these different opinions even though the book says to make it clear in the beginning. Any suggestions?
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I also thought the different types of audiences were very interesting and useful towards the speaker. It is great that you have really considered the different types of audiences when presenting your speech, especially on a topic such as teenage pregnancy. The audience will probably be more open-minded once they figure out you are aware of cultural traditions, and possible other situations that may cause teenage pregnancy to occur. I am really interested on how you will approach this topic! I suggest that in the beginning of your speech you can probably bring up the different situations of how a teenager may become pregnant other than cultural traditions because some teens actually want a child at a early age, and maybe others got into a terrible predicament.
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