In preparing for your speech, you decide to get more information about your audience via
questionnaire. Discuss, define and give at least one example of:
a. each the types of
information you might wish to gather, and b. each of the types of questions you would ask.
What will be an ideal response?
Demographic analysis would include whether the audience was homogeneous or
heterogeneous, the age of the audience members, their gender, race, ethnicity, religion,
and the specific organization the group may be part of. Dispositional audience analysis
includes the attitudes of the audience toward the event, toward the topic and toward
the speaker. The types of questions would be fixed-alternative, scaled, and
open-ended. Examples will vary.
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Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. If speech and action are mixed together, such as in the symbolic act of burning a flag, the speech deserves no greater protection from regulation than would a nonsymbolic action, such as burning trash. 2. First Amendment protections are not absolute. 3. National security and the education and protection of immature children are sufficiently important government interests that laws to advance these interests may infringe upon First Amendment rights without violating the Constitution. 4. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in R.A.V. v. St. Paul, anti-hate speech ordinances are presumptively constitutional.
A special project group was appointed by the CEO and has been meeting each week, but it is now experiencing the repercussions of social loafing. This means that some members
a. are always negative and disagreeable. b. are finding ways to compromise rather than accepting ideas outright. c. are attacking other members in a personal way. d. are exerting little effort and barely participating.
Involving the audience in an informative speech generates active learning
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Just like writers, it is seldom necessary for a speaker to repeat himself or herself, thus, redundancy should be avoided
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.