Apply Your Knowledge

1. It is important to limit your scope because presentations often have a limited amount of time. Also, if presentations are too long, the audience's attention level tends to decrease. By keeping a presentation short, audience's will be more attentive.

2. An audience's attitude may affect the amount of audience interaction because if the audience is strongly opposed to your opinion, they may not be interested in interacting or paying attention to the presentation. However, if the topic of the presentation is very interesting to the audience or it is something they feel very passionate about, they may be more incline to participate.

3. One attention getter you might use to enliven your talk may be to pass around a sample. This would be helpful in promoting a product because the audience would be able to see and test out the product. Another attention getter to use may be to use a starting statistic about the use of the product or how it has benefited prior users. This may arouse audience interest because it may help them learn something about the product and its uses. A third attention getter for this type of presentation may be to use humor. This could be effective depending on what type of product you are promoting.

4. Responding to questions from the audience throughout an oral presentation can be beneficial because it will allow the audience to move on to other thoughts after their question has been answered. If you wait until the end to answer the question, the audience may have ignored the rest of the presentation in focusing on only the topic of their question. However, answering questions throughout the presentation could be a disadvantage because it may interrupt your train of thought.

5. It is ethical to use design elements and special effects to persuade an audience because the design elements may help the audience understand the topic at hand. It would only be unethical if you are using design elements to give a false idea of what you are talking about. As long as you are still being 100% truthful in you presentation, the design elements can make the presentation more appealing and interesting.