Chapter 14 Useful Information

I was please that we read chapter 14 this week because it is on persuasive speaking and that is exactly what I needed to read since our speech is coming up soon. The whole chapter was filled with useful and important information however, I will narrow it down the the concepts that I liked the most. This chapter explains how to set up your topic so that you can best persuade your audience. For example you can set it up as a question (ex: should consumers buy products made in the United States?). What I also liked was "Monroe's Motivated Sequence" which is composed of five steps that require speakers to identify and respond to what will motivate the audience to pay attention. The five steps include gaining the audiences attention, establishing the need for something, satisfying the problem, helps audience members visualize an outcome and moves audience to action. If I don't do anything else I am definitely going to apply Monroe's Sequence to my next speech.