Informative Speech

The purpose of this informative speech is to increase your audience’s knowledge of a topic or to teach your audience something new about the topic. In this speech, you are not trying to change your audience’s attitudes, actions, or beliefs. For this speech, you should choose a topic that is related to your academic major or intended career and that teaches your audience something that can potentially benefit them.When brainstorming ideas and selecting a topic for your informative speech, you should begin by asking yourself a series of questions about each topic that you should consider.

1. Is this topic about something related to your major or career?

2. Is this an appropriate topic for an informative speech in a scholarly setting?

3. Is this a topic in which I am interested? Is this topic important to me?

4. Do I have expertise in this area or want to learn more about this subject?

5. Will my audience be interested in this topic?

6. How much does my audience already know about this topic? Will this teach them something new?

7. Will learning more about this topic help or improve my audience in some way?

Research: You should orally cite at least 2 different types of sources and use at least 2 different types of support materials.Presentation Aids: You must use power point or some other form of visual aid.Notes: You may use up to 3 note cards.Length: 4-6 minutes

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Informative Speech Outline

Please upload your completed informative speech outline. Remember to follow the example template EXACTLY. The outline is the entire speech written out (including verbal citations & transitions between points) but written in outline form.

An essay is not an outline and will receive and automatic 50% grade deduction.

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Answer those question

Instructions: After reading the textbook chapter, answer the prompts below. To receive full credit, each response should be written as a complete paragraph (4-7 sentences in length) and incorporate key concepts and vocabulary from the textbook. Save the file to your computer, and then upload a copy to Canvas to submit your responses. Be prepared to share some of your thoughts during our class discussion.

1. Soon you will be asked to give an informative speech to your classmates. Your speech will need to be about something related to your major or intended career, and the topic should be something about which you have greater expertise than your classmates. List three possible topics that you might choose for this speech and briefly explain why each would be appropriate for you, your audience, and the occasion.
2. For your speech, you will need to do an interview with an expert on the topic that you choose. For each topic that you listed above, identify one person that you could talk to who would be an expert and explain why you might choose to interview them as part of your research for this speech.
3. Choose the topic that you are mostly likely to use for your informative speech assignment. For this topic, explain how you might use each of the four types of supporting evidence in your speech.
4. At this point, you should have begun to narrow down the topic that you plan to use for your informative speech for this class. In the space below, write the topic, specific purpose statement, and thesis statement that you plan to use for your speech.
   Topic:

   Specific Purpose Statement:

   Thesis:

5. Write two different attention getters that you could use in the introduction to your speech. Highlight the attention getter that you think is strongest.
6. Think about what you want to teach your audience. How will you organize your main points and subpoints to help your audience understand and remember your speech as much as possible?
7. Find a video example of a speech online. Paste the link here. Describe which aspects of verbal and physical delivery were done well and which needed improvement.
8. Which of the four forms of delivery was used in the speech that you selected? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this particular type of delivery?
9. Think about what your upcoming informative speech. Explain how you could use three different types of presentation aids in your speech to enhance the audience’s understanding of your topic.
10. What are the five patterns of organization for informative speeches? Give an example of a topic that would be ideal for each pattern (not the one used in the book) and list the three main points you would use with that pattern of organization.
11. Which pattern of organization will be most effective for your speech? Why? Explain how you will use it to organize your main points and subpoints.
12. What is one concept in your speech that will be difficult for your audience to understand? Which of the three strategies for explaining difficult concepts will you use in your informative speech? Write out how you will use this strategy to explain the concept in your speech.
13. Give examples(not the same as the ones in your book) of a speech that would be arguing a question of fact, one that would be arguing a question value, one that would be arguing a question of policy, and one that would be a refutation.
14. For one of the speech examples that you identified in question 1, which pattern of organization would be most effective if you were giving a speech in which you were trying to make that argument? Why would this be the most effective pattern? What would your main points and sub points be?
15. Find an example of a commercial that relies on a fallacy to persuade viewers. Paste a link to that video here. Explain which fallacy you believe is being illustrated and provide a rationale for that choice.

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Please use the completed example outline and template to help prepare your outline. Outlines should be structured exactly like the examples and contain the exact same elements (including at least 2 credible sources and support).

Research: You should orally cite at least 2 different types of sources and use at least 2 different types of support materials.Presentation Aids: You must use power point or some other form of visual aid.Notes: You may use up to 3 note cards.Length: 4-6 minutes