Analyzing Jon Ronson's Speech Summary

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I choose the ted talk of journalist Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test. His speech had various strong points and personal experiences. He uses various strategies to hook his audience and get his point out. He engages with the audience and gets them to listen he keeps them engaged by having humor and telling stories. He uses statistics to infom the audience and even tries to calculate how many psychopaths there is in the audience. He has verbal and nonverbal cues that connect is main points. Ronson sets up his speech as a cautionary tale he tells his story and his experiences. He starts off with the story of how he self-diagnosed himself off a book and found out he had 12 mental disorders. Ronson then goes from there continuing his story in chronological order making is main points. His main points come from each story, some of his main points are how we categorize people and label them, how people are destroyed just by a checklist and can we live with the grey areas of people's personalities and psychopaths. One story leads up to another story making his speech flow. He doesn't use any filler words he seems confident enough to get his ideas out. Ronson also gives information about the people he is going …show more content…

The opening makes me want to hear more about what he is saying, since I want to know how the story ends and what it leads up too. He uses visuals aids designed effectively to go along with his presentation. As he speaks there is graphics and audio in the background, they are timed perfectly to build suspense and give the audience an idea of what he is describing. Ronson’s closing leaves me with a sense of closure as he finishes his story since he explains his main point clearly. In is closing he also leaves the audience with a question to engage with. Even after he's done he leaves me thinking of what he just

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