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Informative Speaking

Informative Speaking. Topic Selection and Speech Design. “In the United States there are more than twenty thousand different ways of earning a living, and effective speech is essential to every one.” ~Andrew Weaver. Public Speaking. Definition Prepare and deliver presentation to audience

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Informative Speaking

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  1. Informative Speaking Topic Selection and Speech Design

  2. “In the United States there are more than twenty thousand different ways of earning a living, and effective speech is essential to every one.” ~Andrew Weaver

  3. Public Speaking • Definition • Prepare and deliver presentation to audience • Skills needed • Organize • Express • Analyze • Think critically • Impact of Speaker’s Attitude

  4. Types of Public Speaking • Informative • Provide information or increase understanding • Inform, Demonstrate, Describe • Persuasive • Reinforce or change thoughts or actions • Motivate, persuade, convince

  5. Systematic Speaking Process Four Main Steps; Choose a topic Research, develop, and outline your topic Present your speech Post-presentation analysis

  6. Four Types of Informative Speaking • Explanations • Primary goal: understanding • Organization: grouping • Descriptions • Primary goal: visualization • Organization: spatial or topical • Definitions • Primary goal: provide meaning • Organization – grows from topic after research • Narratives • Primary goal: Storytelling, entertaining • Organization: temporal, spatial, or topical

  7. Topic Selection • Five steps to selecting an appropriate topic • You • Audience • Occasion • Topic • Narrowing scope

  8. Evaluate Topic • Four areas to evaluate after your topic search: • Worth • Appropriateness • Interest • Availability of Material

  9. Refining your topic

  10. Creating a purpose statement • Purpose statement – show, explain, report, instruct, describe, inform • Put in writing what your speech will do • Examples: • To explain how selected Chinese characters letters evolved • To describe how a hurricane forms

  11. Thesis Statement • Informative Speech • Fulfills three guidelines: • Single sentence • Provides focus • Supports purpose • After my speech, the audience will . . . • Written after you do your research (CRA 16)

  12. Goal and Framework • Organize materials to help your audience follow your speech • Use redundancy • Framework: • Introduction • 10 – 15% of speech • Body • 70-80% to develop main ideas • Conclusion • 10-15 %

  13. OUTLINING PRINCIPLES • 3 Stages to outlining • Preliminary working outline • Full sentence outline • Pages 376 - 378*** • Extemporaneous outline (speaker’s notes) • Body of presentation • Main ideas • Subordinate ideas

  14. Internal summaries and Transitions • Internal summary • I just told you about A and B, now let us look at . . . • Transition • Used to move from one idea to the next • Page 377 • Using signposts • Used to help guide listener to what is next

  15. Type of Introductions • Goal: to gain the attention and interest of listener • Types • Relating facts • Surprising statement • Statistics • Questions • Humor • Personal interest story • Examples in text – pages 372 - 374

  16. Conclusion • What is its function? • Increase impact of speech • Summarize content • Techniques – similar to Introduction • Examples in text – pages 374 - 376

  17. Example: Sample Outline Youtube- Alopecia Youtube - Indonesia

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