Informative Speaking

Meeting 8 Public Speaking

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 Agenda:

ONE Functions of Informative Speeches

TWORole of Speaker
THREE Types of Informative Speeches
FOUR Developing Informative Speeches

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 Function of Informative Speeches

Impart Knowledge

Animate or inspire

Give information or enlightenment

Furnish evidence

Communicate something of interest or special importance

primary purpose is to give your audience information that they did not already know, or to teach
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 Role of Speaker #1: Objective

Remove Unrelated
Accurate
Facts

Remove Personal
Engaging Illustration
Opinion & Emotion

Colorful Language,
Powerful visual

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 Role of Speaker #2: Credible
• Credibility, or ethos, refers to an audience’s perception that the
speaker is well prepared and qualified to speak on a topic (Fraleigh &
Tuman, 2011).

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 Role of Speaker #3: Knowledgable

up-to-date

reliable

Sources
unbiased

directly relevant to your topic

Start by asking what you know, find out what the experts know, and then
move to find out what information other sources can provide (Gladis, 1999)
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 Role of Speaker #4: make the topic
relevant

Speaker clearly link the topic to the listeners’ values, attitudes, beliefs and lifestyle. Consider not
only what the audience wants to hear, but also what they need to hear (Gladis, 1999; Maxey &
O’Connor, 2006).
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•Definitional Types of informative speeches
•Descriptive

•Exploratory

•Demonstration

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 How to Develop it??
ONEGenerate and maintain interest

TWO
Create coherence

THREE
Make your speech memorable

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 Developing Informative Speeches

Generate and
Create Make your
maintain
coherence speech
interest
memorable
Attention Getter
Elements
Organize Logically Build in
Repetition
Tell A Story
Use Simple
Appeal different
Language
way of learning
Be Creative
Avoid Information
Overload Use Visual
Stimulate
Audience
Intellectual

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 Attention Getter Elements

Intensity Novelty

Contrast Activity

Humor

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THANK YOU
Warren Buffet for the slides!
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