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Public Speaking for College and Career, 6/e
Hamilton Gregory

Reaching the Audience

Learning Objectives


1. Describe the difference between a speaker who is audience-centered and one who is not.

2. Define audience analysis and audience adaptation and state why they are important.

3. Use interviews and surveys to gain information about an audience in advance.

4. Explain how speakers can be responsive to diverse audiences.

5. Describe how speakers can adapt to varying levels of audience knowledge, attitudes, interest, and needs and desires.

6. Explain how speakers should adapt to the occasion (time limit, purpose, and size of audience).

7. Describe how a speaker can adapt to the audience during a speech.