COM 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Thesis Statement
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Discuss why introductions and conclusions are important. preparing them to listen and remember their speech. Introductions and conclusions are important because the speaker is catching the audience and. Think of speeches you have heard in the past. Describe some speeches that have not prepared the audience to listen. Introductions allow the audience to determine whether or not they will be interested in the topic and if they will stay the durations of the speech. If you do not prepare them to listen then the implications will be that they will become distracted and not want to listen. Yes it is necessary to include each element of the introduction. If you leave out an attention getter, your audience won"t be interested and won"t listen. If you don"t confirm your speaker credibility then people aren"t going to listen because they know you are either lying or won"t believe that it"s true.
