Informative Speaking

Intellectually stimulating information that is new to the audience.

Creative: using information in a way that yields different or original ideas and insights. Divergent thinking: thinking that occurs when

we contemplate something from a variety of different angles.

Use emphasis to aid memory. Use visual aides. Repeat important words and ideas. Use transitions to guide audience thinking. Use humor to stress key points. Create memory aides for your audience.

Mnemonics: a system of improving memory by using formulas.

Acronyms: words formed from the first letter of a series of words.

Description: the informative method used to create an accurate, vivid verbal picture of an object, geographic feature, setting, or image.

Definition: a method of informing that explains something by identifying its meaning. Synonym: a word that has the same or similar

meaning of your chosen word. Antonym: a word that has the exact opposite

meaning of your chosen word.

Comparison and Contrast: a method of informing that explains something by focusing on how it is similar and different from other things.

Narration: a method of informing that explains something by recounting events.

Demonstration: a method of informing that explains something by showing how something is done, by dissolving the stages of a process, or by depicting how something works.

Process Speeches Goal is to demonstrate how something is done

or made. Steps must be grouped and explained. Based on demonstration, it is likely to use

visual aids, a full or modified demonstration or both.

Expository speech: informative presentation that provides carefully researched, in-depth knowledge about a complex topic. Requires extensive research. Uses an organizational pattern best suited to

the material. Uses various methods of informing for

developing material. Various types of Expository speeches:

political, economic, social, religious, historical, theory, principle, law, or creative.