Q One of the Direct Methods of Audience Analysis is to ask questions of your audience while preparing your speech. If persuasive speaking is supposed to change/reinforce audience attitudes and values, then we want to know how they feel and think about our subject in advance. It is also extremely unlikely that you will give a speech to an audience that is 100% in agreement with you, or 100% hostile - you will most likely have to prepare for a wide range of attitudes and beliefs. There are two types of questions (see pg. 73-74 in the textbook) that can help you do this: A) Scaled Questions typically measure attitudes along a range or continuum, from highly positive to highly negative. This type of question can gauge how your audience feels about your topic. B) Ranked Questions ask for values to be placed in an order, from most important to least important. This type of question can gauge what your audience believes about the importance of the criteria you intend to use and which ones will require the most support to defend. Directions: 1) Identify the topic you have settled on for your Persuasive Speech (if you have not made a final decision, choose a topic you are potentially interested in). Then, compose a both a Scaled Question and Ranked Question to for your classmates to respond to indicating their attitudes and beliefs about your topic. Post that question as a reply to this discussion board. Posting your own question will count as attendance for today. 2) Before the end directly reply to all of your classmates' questions (SEE MY VIDEO ABOVE). The goal is for everyone to get a significant enough number of responses to gauge how to best prepare to persuade the audience based on their attitudes and beliefs. Responding to your classmates' questions will count for class participation credit. Here are my examples for composing a Scaled Question (Attitude) and Ranked Question (Beliefs) for the topic of a "A snake is a good pet": Scaled Question: A snake is a good pet. - 1, strongly disagree - 2, disagree - 3, mildly disagree - 4, neutral -5, mildly agree -6, agree -7, strongly agree Ranked Question: In pets, I care most about (rank these in order of most [3] to least [1]) ___ it being interesting ___ it being easy to care for ___ being able to read its emotions

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