week 3 response 2

2). Discuss the importance of audience analysis and audience adaptation in the speech development process. Also, discuss how YOU plan on using audience analysis in your speech.

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Audience analysis is one of the most important aspects of giving a speech. As I talked about briefly in my last post, knowing your audience is essential to giving a good speech. Before you give a speech, you need to brain storm about who your audience consists of, in ways like age, level of education, and the ideals or focus of a specific group that you could be presenting in front of. These fit into the demographic and pshycographic aspects of audience analysis.
As far as audience analysis goes in preparing for a speech, it outlines what is an is not appropriate to talk about, as well as what will make the speech really reach out to your audience. An example of this gone horribly wrong was in the first of the two speeches we analyzed this week. While the speaker tried to play off the age group he was talking to about drinking by leveling with them by them statistics on their age range, the vomiting noises were inappropriate regardless of the audience's maturity level.
I plan on using this to help our class understand why CPR is practical for them to know, even at our age. A lot of people think that CPR is something only life guards need to know, but it is nessecary for babysitters, camp counselors and many other child-related jobs, a majority of which are held by high school and college aged people.