I think that there are several things that I will take from this class that I will use in my future. The first thing that I know that I will use is the organizational patters that we learned throughout the class. It has taught me to be better organized and to think about the different ways to organize information. I also found the adapting to the audience concept to be very useful and there were several things about that that I did not think about before we read it in the book. I also think that relating to the audience, like we learned in a few of the chapters, will be useful later in life. I never realized that letting people know how something affects them and relates to them was so important in persuading them. The practicing and preparation concepts that I learned and used for the speeches will also help me in life.