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Date Posted: 21:02:36 09/04/02 Wed
Author: Tammy Goodman
Subject: Re: Topic 5: RE--Audience Analysis
In reply to: Ken Harley 's message, "Topic 5: RE--Audience Analysis" on 12:46:25 08/29/02 Thu

>Picture this:
>
>You have been asked to teach a half-day seminar on
>'describing your job' to several groups of children at
>a local school. How would you change your message so
>that each age level of children would enjoy and
>remember your presentation?
>
>To be successful at understanding your audience, you
>need to do an audience analysis on the groups of
>children and adults you will be speaking to during
>that half-day. Then strategize on what you should do
>in your speech that will help your audience to be able
>to listen and learn from you during the presentation.
>
>Describe in the next few sentences--how you would
>explain your job when giving a half-day presentation
>to the following age-groups:
>
>
>5-year-olds--
>
>9-year-olds--
>
>High school freshman--
>
>High school seniors--
>
>Your own peers in your Rockhurst University class--

For five and nine year olds you would take into account their attention span, and make sure your choice of words was age appropriate. As the kids would say, "No big words." For High School, I would try to be a little "cool," tell them how I met Joe Montana and Kellen Winslow (he actually worked for my law firm after he retired from football.) With my peers, I would try to accentuate the human side of what I do, any kind of service that my firm provides. I think that my peers are very caring and service oriented.

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Re: Topic 5: RE--Audience Analysis -- Ken Harley, 10:43:12 09/05/02 Thu