Discussion 3.1: Ch. 5 Vids

In the drinking video, Matthew had a good attention-getter in the beginning by mimicking a person regurgitating from consuming too much alcohol - some of us have experienced this or otherwise seen someone experience this, so it relates to the audience. He was also able to further relate the perils of excessive drinking to his audience by correlating the number of deaths on a national scale to a classroom scale. Courtney’s speech introduction was effective because she related her topic to issues that her audience has heard of before and even discussed already which points out the continuity in her topic. Another effective technique in her introduction was previewing her main points in the speech, and from the jump letting her audience know that they can do something about light pollution so during the speech they are not wondering “does this even relate to me?” or “do I need to listen to this?”