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Persuasive Speech Survey Assignment
SPCH 1114 Fundamentals - Mary Swart - RCTC
15 Point Value

Date of Survey____________
The purpose of this assignment is to aid you in the analysis of your audience. You are to prepare a questionnaire designed to examine and measure your audience's current knowledge, values, beliefs, attitudes, and/or behaviors relevant to your persuasive speech topic. You will thoughtfully prepare and distribute a survey that asks:

1. Closed end question - Yes or No answer.

2. Question designed to measure a degree of knowledge, agreement, feeling, belief, or attitude with/about your topic.
Example - Strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 strongly agree

3. Open-ended question designed to explore any unanswered questions of your audience and may reveal important defining information for your speech.


TO BE HANDED IN THE DAY OF YOUR SPEECH and worth 15 points:
Answer all of the following questions. (Even if you conducted your survey, you will not be given credit points if this report is not handed in the day of your speech.)

1. Report/Analyze the results of your survey. What questions did you ask (include one copy) and a summary of the results for each question.
2. Very important - What did you infer about your listeners as a result of your survey results?
3. Equally as important - How did the information you gained influence the organization of your persuasive speech?
4. Most important - How will you use this information in your persuasive speech strategy?

I also expect you to make a "mention" in your speech about how your survey results influenced your speech.