Having read the chapter and found that knowing your audience is one of the most important things to remember when giving your speech. A key point in knowing your audience is adapting to your settings. Being able to give your speech in front of any territory is crucial. You must be able to be heard in a large stadium or not be over bearing in a small room. Also being able to work with the different equipment in each different room helps with your presentations and being able to work with anything that is in front of you. An audience is always at different venues for different reasons and being able to know know why your audience is there is important. For example is your audience is there for a voluntary reason or for work, this will give you an idea of different specking styles. Being able to relate to your audience and keep them interested is not only important but will be the life or death of your whole presentation.

This weeks reading was on the research it takes to make and preform a higher level speech. One of the finer details I was able to read able was the idea of gathering all the knowledge you already know. Writing down the knowledge you already know about the subject is key because you will be able to see the information in  light you already understand. Once all the information you already know is written out, you have to ask yourself where you found that information. Each of these questions are a starting point for your research. After this first step, you can now start to identify where your research is headed as a whole. Trying to find different view points bout the topic can also widen your knowledge base. Being able to find experts in the field of your subject will provide stable and respecting input that people will trust. Next you can try gathering information from the companies or groups the experts work for. Most of the time the expert in your topics field is working at a company that is researching the same topic. This can lead to new information and already discovered research about the topic at hand. Next would be to find different historic events that lead to your topics either discovery or founding. Key moments in time that identifies your topics origin will give your audience more confidence in what they are hearing. Different scores like news papers and online research journals would be a huge help in the information gathering process.

A research interview can be a huge advantage in having a more rounded paper. It can also help in finding out what you need to know about your subject from someone who has experienced in first hand. I have never done a real professional interview for a research project before. My experience is very limited. However when I have conducted an interview, I've found that keeping the interview more like a conversation between friends promotes better results. Having your questions laid out and planned before even the interview takes place is a must. Knowing the subject of the research project is key to success. Knowing the subject helps keep your questions on the main point and it will help ask follow up questions that might come up during the interview. Also being able to think fast and come up with questions on the fly and from the interviewees response helps greatly to find more in-depth answers. Taking detailed notes to the answers that the interviewee gives also helps keep you on track to continue asking the questions needed to dig deeper into the interview.  The last thing that has helped me in conducting an interview is being able to put together all the information that I gathered from the interview into something coherent. Being able to convert the notes of the interviewee's answers into a high grade paper is the second most important skill I've learned over the years. Being able to interview a person has never been my strongest skill, but with practice I've made it a skill I can continue through out my life.