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| presenting a speech in which the speaker seeks to deepen understanding, raise awareness, or increase knowledge about a topic |
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| how something is done, how it works, or how it has developed |
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| mental activity, including thoughts, understandings, beliefs, notions, and principles |
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| monitoring news sources to analyze and asses the information they produce |
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| significant occurrence that and individual personally experiences or otherwise knows about |
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| any nonliving, material thing that can be perceived by the human senses |
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| A successful informative speaker informs the audience in a way that educates them |
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| works well with informative speeches about events |
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| Organizational Patterns for Informative Speeches |
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| chronological, spatial, topical, narrative, and cause-and-effect patterns |
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| Audiences understand and recall information best when it is clearly presented and easy to follow. Clarity unravels confusing and complex ideas, making them unambiguous and coherent. Still, being clear often presents the greatest challenge to informative speakers |
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| Informing your audience effectively requires that you present accurate information |
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| Specific Purposes and Thesis Statements for Informative Speeches |
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| For informative speaking, your general purpose is to inform, so your specific purpose should begin with a phrase such as “to help my audience learn” or “to make my audience understand.” |
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| Keep Your Speech Informative |
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| In an informative speech, however, you should avoid expressing your personal views. |
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| From the convenience of gathering information and images to the incredible ease with which you can send information to people almost anywhere on the planet, digital communication technologies give you multiple ways to retrieve and share information |
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| This pattern works well with informative speeches about objects and places, people and other living creatures, and processes |
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| Important personal or family activities and occurrences like the birth of a child, weddings, or reunions can be events, too |
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| characteristics of an informative speech |
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| your audience must find the speech meaningful, the information accurate, and the message clear |
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| Use Presentation Media to Inform |
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| A few well-placed images to introduce your topic or audio or visual references in support of your main points can prove effective. When you limit and carefully select your presentation media, you direct more attention to the images and increase their potential impact |
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| An Informative Speech Is Clear |
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| Analyzing your audience, selecting appropriate supporting materials, avoiding technical jargon, and organizing your speech so that it flows logically from one idea to the next will help make your informative speech clear |
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| Connect Your Topic to Your Audience |
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| For audiences familiar with your topic, you can attract and maintain attention by reinforcing commonalities between you and your listeners |
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| Characteristics of an Informative Speech |
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| Your skill as a speaker is the mechanism that allows you to transfer information accurately in order to create knowledge—your own and that of your audience |
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| An Informative Speech Is Personally Meaningful |
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| Short, relevant, personal stories and images like those you might reveal on social media can help you win the affection of your audience. Demonstrating concern or empathy for others also affects people positively. |
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