Explain Speech Audience Adaptation Paper (Final)

In this assignment, we ask that you prepare an audience adaptation paper. The audience adaptation paper asks you to identify the choices you made when adapting your informative speech topic to your classroom audience and setting while indicating the rationale behind those choices.

What areas should I address?

The audience adaptation paper has three specific areas: your informative speech thesis statement, the choices you have made to adapt your topic to your classroom audience and setting and the rationale for those choices, and the same MLA Works Cited list you included with your outline.

What is the Structure for the Adaptation Paper?

• The thesis statement for your informative speech should be labeled and at the top of the page.
• The thesis statement is followed by a short essay that explains the choices you have made while preparing your speech and adapting your topic to your classroom audience and setting. This essay should use paragraph form with complete sentences. The list above is not exhaustive; there are many choices that are made in the speech preparation process. You should explain the choices that are important in your presentation, along with the rationale, regardless of whether they are listed above.
• At the end of the paper you should include a Works Cited section and list all of your sources using MLA format. This does not replace submission of your sources with your written outline.

**As a guideline, this paper should be at approximately one page, double spaced, plus the MLA Works Cited page. You can also refer to page 163 in your textbook for more information on this assignment.