1. 13 Informative Speaking

2.  Presenting a speech in which the speaker seeks to deepen understanding, raise awareness, or increase knowledge about a topic

3. Types of Informative Speeches Speeches about:  Objects and places  People and other living creatures  Processes  Events  Ideas and concepts

4. Specific Purposes and Thesis Statements for Informative Speeches  General purpose – to inform  Specific purpose To help my audience learn To make my audience understand  Thesis – what does my audience need to know?

5. Practice TopicGeneral PurposeSpecific PurposeThesis Binge DrinkingTo informTo help my audience understand the risks of binge drinking. Binge drinking is a form of alcohol abuse that presents both short- and long- term health risks. ????

6. Guidelines for Effective Informative Speeches  Must be informative  Balance clarity with interest  Connect your topic to your audience

7. Informative speech assignment

8. 13 Persuasive Speaking

9.  A speech in which the speaker attempts to reinforce, modify, or change audience members’ beliefs, attitudes, opinions, values, and behaviors  Doesn’t include coercion

10. Speeches on Question of Fact  A question that asks whether something is true or false Examples?

11. Speeches on Question of Value  A question that asks for a subjective evaluation of something’s worth, significance, quality, or condition Examples?

12. Speeches on Question of Policy  A question that asks what course of action should be taken or how a problem should be solved Examples?

13. Persuading Different Types of Audiences  Negative  Positive  Divided  Uninformed  Apathetic

14. Persuasive speech assignment

15. 13 Developing Your Purpose and Topic

16. General Purpose  The speaker’s overall objective To inform To persuade To entertain

17. Brainstorming for Possible Topics  Brainstorming – a free-form way of generating ideas without evaluating them Group up  Generate 10 topics  Use criteria on next slide to evaluate each

18. Evaluating and Selecting Topic Ideas  Consider your own interests  Consider the audience  Consider resource availability  Consider time  Consider the setting and speaking event

19. Identifying Your Speech Purpose  Specific purpose – what you want to achieve in your speech  After my speech my audience will…. Know, understand, be able to explain, be able to do, Believe, do, feel, recognize the value of

20. Phrasing Your Thesis  Thesis – a single descriptive sentence that captures the essence or central idea of a speech

21. 13 Organizing and Outlining Your Speech

22. The Parts of a Speech

23. Organizing the Body of Your Speech Continued  Patterns for organizing your main points Chronological Spatial Topical Narrative Cause-and-effect Problem-solution Monroe’s motivated sequence

24. Activity How are topic and pattern of organization related?

25. Rules for Outlining  Handout

26. Pygmy Outlining Activity

27. Transitions  Where in the speech?  Indicating relationship between points Chronological Subordinate Causality  Sign posts help  Internal summaries and previews

28. Types of Outlines