5 Professor Marsha Turner-Shear Sixin Ruan English 111 01/15/16 Situational analysis The discussion focuses on the impact of education on children. In it, however, the audience is mainly adults of different ages who are attending the lecture by Ken. From the analysis, it is clear that the audience can be grouped into from young adults to the older adults. The lecture indeed took place in the morning hours. It is evident from the greeting of Ken to the audience. The lively interactive session is among the TED recordings in the year two thousand and six. The main purpose of the draft is to look at the argument that is brought about by Ken on the effects of education on the creativity of children. He tries to bring about some of the scenarios that happen in the educational sector in an open and humorous manner. The draft gives some of the different alternatives that have been proposed by Ken. He believes that there are other alternatives that are better than education Do schools kill creativity? In writing, an audience can be defined as anyone to whom the writing is intended. In his speech, Ken Robinson uses humor to engage the audience in an interactive discussion. The speech he delivers is more understandable because he understood his target audience, i.e. he understands what the audience knows and what the audience doesn’t know. He also engages the audience by asking questions such as “Why don’t we get the best out of people?” (Robinson). Ken describes to the audience how education has swept away the creativity out of children using jokes, anecdotes, taglines and quotes making clear his messages. Through his style of audience engagement, it is quite easy to describe the audience at various levels. In this case, Ken Robinson’s target audience includes a group of parents with children attending primary or secondary schools, colleges, and universities. They want a safer and a more appropriate way of nurturing their children to become responsible adults. These parents have spent a lot of money to educate their children complicated courses that they end up dropping. The speech focuses on an alternative that parents should employ to nurture creativity in their children by encouraging them to put more effort on their God given talents. This is estimated to be cheaper compared to the conventional education that is the standard practice. The audience is typically parents aging from 25 to 45. They are either married or single parents who want the best for their children. The audience is averagely middle-class citizens with at least a diploma level of education with most having a college level of education. The educational standard of the audience can be estimated by their understanding of the quotes that the speaker employs to drive his point home. For example, when he describes that all elements on earth are equally important and quoting from Jonas Salk, who once said, "If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years all li ...