Delivering Informative Speeches

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The purpose is to provide information theaudience does not already have.

Even if the audience does have some generalknowledge of your topic, an informative speechwill give them new knowledge or more in-depth information on that topic.

The informative speech does not advocate oneidea over another, but remains nonpartisan.


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Speeches about objects, people: These types ofinformative speeches are about things in oursensory and physical world - A speech on a

country, an important person, an animal, abuilding, would all be a speech about objects.

Speeches about events: These type of speeches

are about anything that has or will happen. Itcan be something like Mardi Gras or the currentvolcanoes in Hawaii, WWII, or even currentdisasters throughout the world.


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Speeches about processes: These type of speechestake the audience through a series of events whichlead them to a specific result or product. How to

succeed in a job interview, how to learn a foreignlanguage and how to tune a guitar are all speechesabout processes.

Speech about concepts: These type of speeches

are dealing with theories, ideas, beliefs and otherabstract principles. Explaining democracy, musictheory or Martin Luther King, Jr.'s principle ofpeaceful revolution would fit into this category.


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This will help you prepare a speech that isrelevant and interesting to your listeners.

Age range Gender Occupation Economic level Ethnicity General background


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To avoid nervousness, you can choose a topicabout something you know a lot about or thatreally interests you.

An experience you remember vividly Something you care a lot about Something in which you are skilled or

experienced Something about which you are

knowledgeable


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If itstoo general then youllhave 2 problems: 1) Itsimpossible to say everything there is to say about atopic in 5 minutes, and 2) Your audience cant

remember too many details after a 5 minutespeech.

To narrow your topic ask yourself: Is your topic specific? (only 1 aspect of the topic) Does your topic contain only one idea? Is your topic achievable? (not very hard to do,

understand or remember)


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Interviews Library research Internet research: on-line journals and

magazines, databases, google scholar


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They help your audience to actually see andexperience what you are talking about.

SlidesPicturesVideosAudiosObjectsCharts

DiagramsModelDemonstrations


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Step 1. Prepare the body: Decide on anorganizational pattern and write an outline

Arrange the points of your speech in a clear, logicalmanner. To do that choose an organizational pattern:

a) Past-present-future

b) Timec) Problem-solutiond) Location

e) Cause-effect

f) Effect-cause

g) Related subtopicsh) Advantages-

disadvantages


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Step 2. Prepare a preview.

You should tell your audience what youregoing to

cover . This should be easy, since you have alreadydetermined what you will cover in your outline


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Step 3. Prepare an attention-getting opener.

Ask rhetorical questions Tell a story State a surprising fact State a well-known quotation


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Step 4. Prepare a summary.

Repeat the main points covered in the body of

your speech


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Step 5. Prepare a memorable concludingremark.

Repeat the main points covered in the body ofyour speech

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