1. Communication: Embracing Difference Dunn & Goodnight
Informative Speech
CHAPTER 15
Communication: Embracing Difference
Dunn & Goodnight

2. Informative Speech Purpose is to educate the audience about a topic.
Speaker needs to engage the audience.
The informative speech should be simplistic, meaning easy enough to follow.
Make appropriate language choices.

3. Informative Speech Topics
Recreation
Concepts
Places
Objects
People
Events

4. Informative Speech Organization
Identify the organizational pattern (chapter 13) that best relates to your topic and the purpose of your speech.
Build a speech that is well developed with solid facts rather than minute facts.

5. Informative Speech: Methods
Narration: a story or an account of an event told orally.
Description: is an image that is created verbally.
Concrete terms – descriptions that are detailed and specific.
Abstract terms – are descriptions that are vague or general.
Definition: clarifying terms that may be unclear to audience members.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Comparisons
Etymology
Demonstration: is often an effective method for explaining a point or idea to an audience