As part of planning for her class speech on the Patriot Act, Brenda passed around a brief questionnaire asking whether her classmates were for or against the Act, whether they thought parts or the entire Act should change, etc

Was this a good idea, according to your text?
a. No; by doing the questionnaire, she revealed to the class what her speech topic was going to be.
b. Yes; this is a smart technique of analyzing the audience known as demographic audience analysis.
c. No; the class is a captive audience, so finding out their views ahead of time wasn't necessary.
d. Yes; this form of psychological audience analysis is a good thing to do for any kind of audience.


d

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