Listen and watch the video about a sample informative speech entitled The Rare Phobia. Afterward, answer the questions provided.

Informative Speaking​

​ACTIVITY

Answer the questions provided about the video you watched.

Informative Speaking​

​ANALYSIS

Informative Speaking

Abstraction

​Informative Speaking

Informative Speaking

1. Why We Speak to Inform

2. Making Information Clear and Interesting for the Audience

3. Adjust Complexity to the Audience

4. Avoid Unnecessary Jargon

5. Create Concrete Images

Abstraction

​Informative Speaking

Informative Speaking

6. Keep Information Limited

7. Link Current Knowledge to New Knowledge

8. Make It Memorable

9. Make It Relevant and Useful

10. Personalize Your Content

Abstraction

​Types of Informative Speech

Informative Speaking

1. Objects

2. ​People

3. ​Events

4. ​Concepts

5. ​Processes

Abstraction

​Developing Your Topic for the Audience

Informative Speaking

Sources of Confusion:

1. ​Difficult Concepts or Language

2. ​Difficult-to-envision structures or processes

3. Difficult to understand because it's hard to believe

Abstraction

​Ethics

Informative Speaking

Being ethical often involves a surprising amount of work. In the case of choosing too ambitious a topic, you have some choices:

• Narrow your topic further.

• Narrow your topic in a different way.

• Reconsider your specific purpose.

• Start over with a new topic.​

ASYNCHRONOUS ACTIVITY

Think about three potential topics you could use for an informative speech. Identify where the audience might experience confusion with concepts, processes, or preexisting implicit theories. Select one of the topics and outline how you would develop the topic to address the audience’s potential confusion.

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