Jane Goodall Speaking Critique :: essays research papers

On February 2, 2002, Dr. Jane Goodall appeared at Clemson University to enunciate to the students and public. I will attempt to evaluate her performance as a public speaker. Specifically, I will begin by describing the setting and sense of hearing for the event. I will then identify the ways in which Dr. Goodall would be described as an effective public speaker in the stage setting of the textbook, Excellence in Public Speaking. I will then disassemble the aspects of her performance that the textbook might brook considered lacking. Finally, I will send a few words to my personal opinion of the effectiveness of Dr. Goodalls presentation.Naturally, a speaker of Dr. Goodalls prominence was expected to draw rather a crowd. She was speaking at the Brooks center, which, although large, was not expected to have the necessary capacity for all the people who wanted to attend the event. Clemson students got world-class chance at the tickets, and when the box office opened at 630, the line already extended half a mile scratch off the sidewalk. I was fortunate/foresighted enough to pay a Clemson fledgeling to start standing in line for me at 400, so my seat was perfectly centered in the auditorium, seven rows from the front.The hour-long presentation was finally concerned with rallying support for the Jane Goodall Institute and its Roots and Shoots program. not surprisingly, the sense of hearing was comprised almost exclusively of admirers of Dr. Goodalls work. Due to the shortage of seating in the Brooks center, the live consultation consisted primarily of Clemson students and professors. Apparently there was fountain seating in other buildings the people who couldnt fit in the Brooks center were provided with a closed-circuit television broadcast of the presentation.Dr. Goodalls attention-getter was easily the most unique Ive seen. She walked onto the stage, silently organized her notes, then held her head back and began hooting like a chimpanzee (having worked with chimps for some forty years, she does an uncannily accurate impression). She then smiled beatifically and announced, thats chimpanzee for Hello. Not a soul in the hearing doubted her word.Essentially, in one action, she got the audiences attention, introduced herself, and established credibility (though given her reputation, credibility did not real need to be established). Dr. Goodall quickly segued into a personal story or so how she couldnt have achieved anything without the unwavering support of her mother, establishing an emotional rapport with the audience almost saying Its okay, Im not break dance than you, you could just as easily be as remarkable a person as you seem to think I am.