Monday, October 12, 2009
Connecting your topic to your audience
It is great to connect your topic to your audience. Having it this way, we can get into people’s emotions and thoughts and they’ll enjoy our speech more. By using this technique, we can reduce the distance between our audiences and our audience can remember to pay attention and focus more intently on the topic. If our audience is unfamiliar with our topic, we should make a connection with them because they’ll really feel like we’re only speaking to them and that might make them more comfortable in opening up and answering questions when the speech is over. I found this useful because last time we had our speech and someone did the speech on 9/11, everyone could connect someway or somehow to it and everyone was hooked on listening to what they were talking about. I find this useful and interesting because everytime someone can relate to you in anyway, it makes the person feel more comfortable about the situation being talked about and they can give your feedback on it.
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I agree with you that it is good if you can connect your topic to your audience because they will be able to connect with what you’re saying much better. The audience will better understand your speech and enjoy listening to what you have to say. The audience will tend to understand your speech better, if your topic somewhat relates to them. I agree with you that they might be more opened to answering your questions or asking questions themselves because they could be interested in your topic. I too felt connected in some way to the 9/11 speech we had and so I was able to listen to it better. If you are able to connect your speech to your audience in some way, the audience will feel more comfortable about it because they will know it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this idea because after all, the audience is who you are talking to in the first place. If you cannot connect your topic to the audience, what is the point of relaying information to them? It would be like trying to convince a bunch of four year olds to eat broccoli over chocolate, a complete waste of time. I agree with the comfortable factor playing an important role as well, and it has a lot to do with helping the speaker with confidence as well as comfort. I think of the spotlight effect when I read this because connecting with your audience eases your emotions a little bit. Overall, I agree with what you said and the importance it has on the overall speech.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a great idea to connect your topic with the audience. I think this is a very smart move because if the audience feels connected to the topic, they are more likely to listen, due to the fact that they can relate to the topic. Relating your topic to the audience is also a good idea because it allows the audience to build upon the knowledge they already possess. All the speaker is doing is going more in depth with the knowledge. When the audience can relate to the topic, they probably would be more willing to ask questions at the end of your presentation because they probably care about your presentation a little more than the average presentation that they cannot relate to at all.
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