Concept

The concept that I personally found the most useful and interesting was the section about persuading different types of audiences. The types of audiences are: divided, uniformed, apatheric, negative, and positive. Each of these audiences can be described in a different way. For example, a divided audience can be described as half of the audience being favorable towards something, and the other half being unfavorable; hence, the term “divided.” An apathetic audience is exactly what apathetic means! Apathetic means “showing or feeling no interest.” The audience has no such interest in the topic so the speaker has to really try and get their attention and get them interested in it. A positive audience holds a favorable view, it’s atmosphere is very positive, easy to go along with. A negative audience is the opposite of a positive audience, it holds an unfavorable view, against the topic so to speak. Lastly is the uniformed audience. The uniformed audience is an audience with no such opinion. In this occasion, the audience can try and persuade their audience by using repetition and something called redundancy. Redundancy , as you may or may not know, means the state of being no longer needed or useful. So in this case, lets say the speaker is trying to get the audience to put a stop to something because it is not useful. Well this section was super useful because now I know what types of audiences are out there and will plan my speech a whole lot better. :)

-Jeter!