Chapter 16 Flashcards
A form of public speaking intended to increase the audience’s understanding or knowledge.
Informative speaking
Three things to meet the audiences informational needs
- Gauge what they already know
- Decide on how to approach the topic
- Make the topic relevant to each member of the audience.
Expressing or presenting facts and information in a straightforward and evenhanded way, free of influence from the speaker’s personal thoughts or opinions.
Objective
Presenting facts and information from a particular point of view.
Subjective
Eight categories of informative speech
- People
- Places
- Objects and phenomena
- Events
- Processess
- Concepts
- Issues
- Plans and policies
Four major approached to informative speeches
Descriptive
Demonstration
Definition
Explanation
An approach to conveying information that involves painting a mental picture for the audience.
descriptive presentation
A speech that answers “how” questions by showing an audience the way something works.
demonstration speeches
A presentation whose main goal is to provide answers to “what” questions by explaining to an audience what something is
definitional speech
Defining something by explaining what it is or what it does.
Operational definition
Defining something by telling what it is not.
Definition by negation
defining something by offering concrete examples
definition by example
A speech that answers the question “Why” or “What does that mean?” by offering thorough explanations of meaning.
Explanatory speeches
An explanation that illuminates a concept’s meaning and use.
elucidating explanation
When explaining the big picture,An explanation that models or pictures the key dimensions of some phenomenon for a typical audience.
Quasi-scientific explanation
