" According to our class book on "How to Organize your Speech Introduction", he wanted to "command the attention of the audience with his first words" which drawled us in, wanting to know more. Pg. 58. He definitely had planned strategies for getting our attention; question, arouse, stimulate, etc. which the book describes as good ideas for getting the audiences attention." Pg. 221. "In the early 1900's what was the leading cause of death?" "The Flu", he said. "The flu killed back then and now, stress kills. Think about it, high blood pressure, stroke." From that point on the audience was able to understand the concept of where he was going. He provided us with a clear thesis, leading him to "clarify his topic and purpose of his speech" which the book says if your listeners are confused about your topic, you limit their ability to listen actively. Pg.58. He used a visual aid to preview his key ideas. Before he went forward into the body of the speech, he provided us with credibility/Ethos relating to his lab in Stanford and his studying in Austria. He appealed to the general audience with the amount of stress and fear that some of us may have with dying. That provided me with the idea that he was using some of the rhetorical proofs, pathos and logos. He definitely "established the importance of his topic" as the book describes as a very important goal in the introduction. Pg. 229. Since he had a thesis, he had no problem going into the preview.
Then, he had a great transition into the body of the speech. He provided the audience with a slide show on "The stress response and its consequences." However, at first, it took a second for my eye to adjust to the green on black, but in a moment's time, it went smoothly. He used the casual division pattern, which is "tracing a condition or action from it cause to its affects, or from effects back to causes" the text says. Pg. 205. I was able to relate his body of the speech to the books " 4 S strategy of developing key ideas, 1) Signpost the idea, 2) Support the idea, 3) Support the idea, 4) Summarize the idea.