Howard Community College Cell Phone Usage in Younger Adults and Children Speech

Directions: In order to effectively deliver a persuasive speech, you have to understand who your audience is and their perspectives and knowledge (or lack thereof) regarding your topic. As such, this activity is designed to give you the opportunity to survey a portion of your classmates (who are your audience members) and to use the information they provide to plan your approach toward your speech. Therefore, you are to do the following:

• After you have had your persuasive speech topic approved, complete the form below and answer the specified questions. 
• Next, create 3 questions that will help you learn more about your audience’s knowledge of your topic and/or their perspective of your topic. You should have at least 2 of your questions be open-ended(questions that require some explanation), and only should have 1 question be close-ended (i.e yes/no questions). For example, if you were giving an actuating speech to encourage your audience to recycle, a close-ended question you could ask is “Do you currently recycle?” or “Do you believe people should be fined if they do not recycle?”Sample open-ended questions you could ask are “Why do you think that most people do not recycle at home?”or “What tools, supplies, information, etc. do you think people need that would make them recycle more?” 
• Survey 5 of your classmates, asking them the 3 questions you have created in the above step, and record their answers