This document summarizes a research proposal on gaining audience attention in public speaking. The research will analyze different techniques for attracting and maintaining audience engagement through qualitative and quantitative methods like questionnaires, literature reviews, and analyzing public speaking videos. The goal is to help speakers identify audience interests and needs to prepare effective speeches. Recommendations will consider audience demographics and the speaker's ability to engage listeners linguistically and through personality.

1. ENGLISH II (PUBLIC SPEAKING)
HOW TO GAIN AUDIENCE ATTENTION
PRESENTED BY:
SYED MUHAMMAD TALIB
PRESENTED TO:
MAM SYEDA NAJAF BUKHARI

3. INTRODUCTION
• Keeping audience attention is more important and more difficult than
grabbing audience attention.
• A one-way presentation is one of the worst possible ways of transferring
information from person to person.
• It requires discipline and effort to simply sit and listen passively to
someone speak for any length of time.
• In this research, we are going to analyze that what are the different ways
to attain audience attention

4. LITERATURE REVIEW
PURPOSE OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
• The Purpose of Public speaking can range from simply
transmitting information, to motivating people to act.
• Our research was basically to analyze the ways in
which we can attain maximum audience attention.
• This research will benefit speakers to find those
secrets which are responsible for successful public
speaking seminars and workshops.
• WHY NEED OF THIS RESEARCH
Skills in public address are necessary for
presenting to the audience a clear understanding of
the topic.

5. HOW WE PERFORMED THIS RESEARCHED
• We have gone through the information which is available on the internet and have
watched techniques used by successful speakers while addressing their views and
speeches.
• We have also conducted questionnaire with students and different individuals to
have an idea how audience feels and expect from speakers.
BOOKS PUBLISHED ON THIS WORK
• Speak like your self by JEZRA KAYE
• How to get your point in access in 30 seconds by MILO FRANK

6. RESEARCH QUESTION
How to gain audience attention during speech, presentations and in
public speaking seminars?
• If we know our audience and their needs, the more better we can prepare
our speeches and presentation.
• Knowing our audience in depth is the most important part of preparing as
well as delivering the speech.
• An audience is not just a group of people who gathered to listen but they
gather for a very real reason.
• They want to hear what the speaker is going to
speak.

7. METHODOLOGY
• Our research will be qualitative because for better understanding of
audience psyche we should read different articles, explore internet and
watch public speaking videos.
• Our research will also be quantitative in the sense that we will design
questionnaire in order to seek their circle of interest and hope to get good
responses of them about public speaking.
SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
• The sample of the research may have a profound influence on the
outcome of analysis, we will also use opinioned questionnaire to know the
audience expectations from the speaker.

9. SAMPLING TOOLS
Following tools will be used in order to analyze the data that includes
• Internet
• Group discussions
• Brain storming
• Articles from newspaper
• Sessional public speaking videos etc.

10. CONCLUSION
• In this research we will discover different ways and tactics of how to make
the speech relevant and influential by grabbing the audience attention.
• With the help of questionnaires and internet surfing we can identify the
audience interest which helps us in detecting the idea of how we can
prepare our speech confidently.

11. ETHICAL CONSIDERATION
• The material of the research will not be plagiarized
• We will not show biasness and we will not discriminate gender wise.
• We will not use slang words.
• We will be honest about the sources we have gathered.

12. REFERENCES
• http://study.com/academy/lesson/grabbing-the-audiences-attention.html
• http://business.financialpost.com/business-insider/7-excellent-ways-to-
start-a-presentation-and-capture-your-audiences-attention
• http://department.monm.edu/cata/mcgaan/classes/cata339/audience-
analysis101.htm

13. BIBLIOGRAPHY
In order to prepare this proposal we have taken help through articles from
internet and newspapers and explored different websites. Following are the
topics we have gone through:
• Grabbing the audience attention
• Some effective ways to keep audience attention
• Analyzing your audience

14. RECOMMENDATIONS
• After going through the research we analyzed that seeking audience
attention is not an easy task and vary on demographic and physiographic
bases.
• Should keep in consideration about physique of their audience
• The speaker should be linguistically sound and has a good convincing
tone.

15. QUESTIONNAIRE
• Name (optional)
• Age
• Sex
• Ethnic Background
• Language

16. • Personale
• Favorite Public Speaker
• Current Occupation
• I regarded myself being conservative, liberal, socialist and why?
QUESTIONNAIRE (CONTINUED)

17. • According to you, what is the most important part of public speaker. Their knowledge
or personality?
• Do you think that public speaking forum is good resource for learning?
QUESTIONNAIRE (CONTINUED)

18. FEEDBACK FORM
• Q.1 What was the most effective part of today’s session?
• Q.2 What were the positive as well as negative points?
• Q.3 What message did you opt from the speech?
• Q.4 How well did the session go?
• Q.5 What would you suggest us to add up more?

19. • Q.6 Was the speech convincing enough?
 Yes
 No
• Q.7 Was our way of delivering speech assertive?
 Yes
 No
• Q.8 Would you like to attend our event in the future?
 Yes
 No
• Q.9 Would you recommend this to others?
 Yes
 No
• Q.10 Comments and recommendations for the future?
FEEDBACK FORM (CONTINUED)