Paul just returned from new york fashion week. his graphic arts & design teacher has asked him to give an informative speech about his trip. paul wants to cover fashion week from the first show he saw to the last show he saw.

while all the students in his class are interested in design, not all of them care about fashion design. knowing this about his audience, which of the following might paul make his speech more effective?

a.

start with something simple about fashion

b.

connect fashion to something the audience already knows

c.

give lots of examples about the fashion from each show

d.

limit the amount of information about the designers

The correct answer is B. Connect fashion to something the audience already knows.

Explanation:

An informative speech is a type of speech whose main propose is to teach the audience about some subject, topic or situation by providing organized information about it. Because of this, informative speech focus on almost any type of topic and organize information in different ways. However, as other speeches, speakers of this type of speeches need to consider the audience in terms of their interests, previous knowledge, experiences and education and modify their speech according to the features of the audience to guarantee the audience engagement and understanding of the information presented.

In the case of Paul, his main propose is to teach his classmates about his trip and especially about the fashion week, but considering Paul's audience is not interested in fashion but they know and are interested about design. Paul will need to modify his speech to teach the audience about the fashion design of the fashion week, by using their interests and knowledge in general design as approaching the fashion week directly would make Paul's audience lost their interests and the speech would not be effective. Therefore by knowing information about the audience, Paul can make his speech more effective by " connect fashion to something the audience already knows", because this will allow Paul to evoke the interest of the audience and help the audience understand Paul's topic which is the purpose of the speech.

i think the answer is c