Describe the process suggested for analyzing your own ethos. What must be considered to obtain a realistic view of how the audience will regard you? How will this affect your speech?
What will be an ideal response?
- Ethos refers to the character an audience attributes to a speaker. Consider how the audience may perceive you as you are developing your speech, and then plan your speech strategically.
- To begin with, you should determine similarities and differences between you and the audience with respect to demographics, cultures, and psychology.
* Are you older or younger than most of your listeners? Is your ethnic, cultural, or economic background different? Are your personal interests similar to theirs? Do you have different general orientations toward change?
- You will want to plan the speech so that you either minimize perceptions of difference when that is appropriate or acknowledge and compensate for differences when that is desirable.
- Knowing yourself and having thought about the similarities and differences between you and your listeners, consider how the audience members are likely to perceive you. Apply the principles of audience analysis that you have learned here, and craft a speech that maintains the integrity of your own position while also trying not to offend, distance, or talk down to potential listeners.
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a. At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to list the steps of a golf swing. b. At the end of my speech, the audience will be able to explain the three steps in making brownies. c. At the end of my speech, the audience will understand the process of nuclear fusion. d. At the end of my speech, the audience will believe that the handicapped need better access on campus.
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What will be an ideal response?