capturing and maintaining attention

 

  • Why is knowing your audience an important part of capturing and maintaining their attention?
  • What cultural considerations do you need to take into account for your particular audience/topic?
  • How are you going to keep the audience’s attention throughout the speech?
  • Find at least one example on YouTube, TEDx, or other video repositories of good attention-getting examples. Post the URL and explain how the video is a good model for capturing the audience’s attention. The video can be on any topic but must be appropriate for sharing.
  • Make sure to include a scholarly source to support your points.

In place of the textbook citation, you will need to integrate and cite the video you selected as well as a scholarly source.

Writing Requirements

  • Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
  • Minimum of 2 sources cited (video and an outside scholarly source)
  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references

capturing and maintaining attention

  • Why is knowing your audience an important part of capturing and maintaining their attention?
  • What cultural considerations do you need to take into account for your particular audience/topic?
  • How are you going to keep the audience’s attention throughout the speech?
  • Find at least one example on YouTube, TEDx, or other video repositories of good attention-getting examples. Post the URL and explain how the video is a good model for capturing the audience’s attention. The video can be on any topic but must be appropriate for sharing.
  • Make sure to include a scholarly source to support your points.

In place of the textbook citation, you will need to integrate and cite the video you selected as well as a scholarly source.

Writing Requirements

  • Minimum of 2 posts (1 initial & 1 follow-up)
  • Minimum of 2 sources cited (video and an outside scholarly source)
  • APA format for in-text citations and list of references
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