A reoccurring theme this semester, is that your speech is all about your audience. So for a persuasive speech, it should be know different. When you are delivering a persuasive speech there are several types of audiences.
The first three that are better for you, as the speech giver, are sympathetic, uninformed, and divided audiences. This way you already half support or could easily build support.
The other two are apathetic and hostile audiences. Both of these audiences are bad, however the apathetic audience could be arguably the worst. A hostile audience, already has some knowledge, that you can play on. Use it to manipulate their point of view, and instill doubt. An apathetic audience, you have to first win over to the idea of caring. Then you have to inform them, and after that win them to your side. It is a great deal more work.
I agree that apathetic audiences are the worst, but I feel like I would be so scared to give any type of speech outside of this class! It’s nice to know that despite my crippling fears of public speaking, I won’t be booed off the stage by all of you guys as I present my speech haha! Also, in most settings, you’re not going to be giving a speech to an audience of people where every single other person in that audience will also give a speech. In fact, I don’t think there is any other setting besides the academic one where it would be like that.
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