Mcgruder Hall’s resident assistants hosted a public forum in Rice hall on November 24, 2008 at seven o’clock evening time. They performed an informative and persuasive speech on the awareness of the date rape drug. The introduction was very effective which the person introduced herself and opened her introduction with a question and a fact. Both the question and the factwere something the audience instantly related to, “I know many of you have gone to parties, how many have ordered drinks before and left them somewhere and came back to get them?” and “Three out of five women are raped each year between the ages of seventeen to twenty-five. Those openers related directly to the female crowd of colleges students’ whose ages ranged from seventeen to twenty-four. The main points of her speech could have been more organized. She jumped back repetitiously between her points. I said that the speech could have also been a persuasive speech because the object of the speech was to inform but also persuade the audience to make better judgments about drinking and aware themselves more about date rape drugs. The speaker used pathos and logos to help support her case. By using pathos, the audience instantly had feedback. Throughout the speech, the speaker identified with the audience and stayed connected until the end. The speaker did not state or site her sources at all. Therefore, there is a doubt on whether her facts and statements are deemed credible. In the conclusion, the speaker stated ten tips to prevent date rape and a recap of previously stated information. The tips were very informative and made the conclusion effective. The delivery of the speech was not the best and could have been better. Because she was nervous, she stumbled over words, said “umm” a lot, and used too much hand gestures. Her hand gestures distracted the audience several times from her speech. However, the audience remained in tuned the whole speech and responded in open discussions. By analyzing...