1. Informative Speeches

2. Informative Speaking
is to impart knowledge in order to raise awareness or deepen understanding of some phenomenon.
should connect with the audience interest and previous knowledge.
Should help the listeners along with internal previews, internal summaries, liberal use of transitions, and have well prepared intros and conclusions.
Choose an organizational pattern that helps the audience listen.

3. Subject matters
May be about objects or phenomena, people, events, processes, concepts, or issues.
See page 178 for extra ideas.

4. How to communicate your information
Definition:
Operational definition (what it does)
Definition by negation (by what it is not)
Definition by example (define by listing concrete examples)
Definition by synonym (comparing it with similar terms)
Definition by word origin (the root meaning)

5. How to communicate your information
Description: concrete words and vivid imagery to help us visualize
Demonstration: “how to”
Explanation: provide reasons or causes, demonstrate relations, and offering intepretations and analysis.

6. Help the Audience
Use an analogy to explain a complex word or process: “The heart is like a pump, except that the heart actually changes size as it pushes blood out.”
Understand different learning styles: VARK
Type
Advice for Communicating Info
Visual
Will most easily grasp ideas through pictures, diagrams, charts, and graphs, flowcharts, maps.
Aural or Auditory
Will most easily grasp ideas through the spoken word, lectures, or group discussions.
Read/Write
Will most easily grasp ideas through text-based delivery, handouts, PP with text-slides.
Kinesthetic
Will most easily grasp ideas through real-life demonstrations, simulations, and through hands-on applications.