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Informational Speaking. Your First Primer. Two Things Everyone Should Know:. Your subject Your audience. Three Things to Insure a Great Speech. Preparation Preparation Preparation. What’s the Difference?. Informational. Persuasive. Humorous. Know the subject Know the audience
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Informational Speaking Your First Primer
Two Things Everyone Should Know: • Your subject • Your audience
Three Things to Insure a Great Speech • Preparation • Preparation • Preparation
What’s the Difference? Informational Persuasive Humorous
Know the subject Know the audience Know the room Relax Visualize Realize people want you to succeed Don’t apologize Concentrate on Message, not medium Turn nervousness into positive energy Gain experience Got Butterflies?
Speaking to Inform:Judging Criteria • Is the information communicated accurately? • Is the information communicated clearly? • Is the information made meaningful and interesting to the audience?
Speaking to Inform • Can be about • Objects • Processes • Events • Concepts
Speeches about Objects (visible, tangible and stable in form) • The Stock Market • Cars • The Human Eye • General Norman Schwartzkopf • Sea Lions • Personal Digital Assistant
Speeches about Processes (a systematic series of actions leading to a specific result or product) • CPR • How Oriental Rugs are Made • How to Create Your own Web Page • How Tsunamis Develop • How to Dance the Tango
Speeches about Events (anything that happened) • WW II • The Civil Rights Movement • The Olympics • The Civil War • The Hindenburg Disaster • The Iditerod
Speeches about Concepts (beliefs, theories, ideas, principles, etc.) • Principles of Feminism • Freudian Psychology • Hinduism • Theories of Learning • Reagan’s Trickle Down Theory of Economics • The Big Bang Theory
Lucas’s Guidelines for Informative Speaking • Don’t overestimate your audience (explain with examples) • Relate subject to your audience (get and keep them involved) • Don’t be too technical (avoid jargon) • Avoid abstractions (use comparisons) • Personalize your ideas (dramatize in human terms)
