As an informative speaker, why is gaining audience attention important? Explain the general strategies used to gain and maintain audience attention. Provide a specific example of a strategy you (or another speaker) have used successfully to gain audience attention.
What will be an ideal response?
- Motivating the audience to pay attention is critical to the success of any speech. To accomplish this, you should follow a strategy that will work well for your audience. Gaining and maintaining the attention of the audience is extremely important when you present information. Audience members must believe they will benefit from the information, perceive it as relevant to their lives, and find it interesting enough to want to listen.
- Strategies:
* Generate a Need for the Information
* Create Information Relevance
* Provide a Fresh Perspective
* Focus on the Unusual
- Student examples will vary.
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a. feelings. b. smells. c. sounds. d. all of the above.