While brainstorming ideas for which topic within this week's reading I should do my final blog of the week about it occurred to me: Why not do it about brainstorming!? How appropriate! (Or I could say "How ironic!" if I had as flimsy of a grasp of the meaning of the word as most people seem to.) When doing the reading I spent extra time thinking about and paid special attention to the section specifically about considering the audience. Considering that I hardly know my audience up to this point, I sort of have to take some leaps and think in generalities as to how they might receive things and what they may know about my subject.
Without giving it away (because, believe it or not, I already came up with one instead of waiting until the last possible moment) I will just say that I came up with something that I believe most everyone the class will know of, but that most will not know much about. This gives me a good chance to speak to inform my audience about the topic. I feel that this is appropriate since it will be my first formal, pre-planned speech in front of everyone. I'm sure it's no coincidence that Carol chose Culture as our first speech topic exactly because it provides a great opportunity for all of us to inform our audience about our culture and by extension about ourselves. This makes my topic very relevant to all of my audience, because all of my audience is getting to know me. Keeping all of this in mind, I feel excited about the opportunity to tell all of you a little bit about who I am.
"Today I woke up younger than I've been in years. Not concerned with what's outside and fears: I don't have any." -Alkaline Trio
Well brainstorming is brilliant, but sometimes no matter how hard you try, the “ideas” don’t start pouring in until you are really under a time crunch. It is important to keep audience in mind while preparing speech because if you want to keep people’s attention, you got to talk about what interests them. I do agree with you about the culture speech. It will be interesting to find out what is important to people and how they define themselves. It does take a lot of brainstorming and creativity to put into a 5 minute presentation a summary of what or who you are.
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