Giving a speech in front of strangers can be terrifying. You’ll most likely try to think of everything to make it less terrifying days before you start. Your hair and your clothes you rehearse and talk to yourself in the mirror. You give the speech to family and friends to help work out the bugs and try to gain confidence. Of course, there is always the age- old tactic of picturing your audience naked to help with nerves. However, you can do all of these but if you don’t consider your audience odds are your speech is not going to live up to all your hard work. Audience analysis is the most important part of your speech. After all the audience, you are speaking to is your entire reason for giving the speech. “The more you know your audience the better you can prepare.” …show more content…
You can do this a couple of ways if you have the option of meeting your audience beforehand you can use what you see to pick up on general age, race, and sex of the audience if you’re allowed to talk to your audience there are even more things you can learn from them such as occupation, education level and maybe even religion. Why are these things important when you are planning a speech? Let’s start with age you wouldn’t talk about advanced robotics with preschool age children. It’s also important to not use language outside your age group, for example, lol or TMI may be something an older generation of people doesn’t understand. Education ties in very well with age so take that into account. Their race is only important because it shouldn’t be important you shouldn’t try to warm up to one race or another and just treat all races as equal in general. Religion is another one you should just avoid trying to favor up to your audience. Some of your audience may have no religion at all and religious and non-religious alike can be quickly offended. It’s safer to stay on the neutral side of these