Chapter 16: Informative Speaking Flashcards
1
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Informative Speeches
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- educate audience about a topic
- demonstrate how something works
2
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Functions of Informative Speeches
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- raise awareness about a topic
- provide in-depth explanation of a topic
3
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Why Is It Important To Understand Your Audience?
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- important to understand audience’s prior knowledge and demographics
4
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Specific Purposes for Informative Speeches
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- write out specific purpose statement:
- complete sentence that summarizes speech goal
- avoid information overload:
- amount/nature of content exceeds listeners’ ability to process it
5
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Boomerang Effect
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- listeners become resentful toward speakers for overwhelming them, making them less likely to listen
- focus on one central idea
6
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Persuasive Speaking
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- reinforce or change attitudes
- motivate
7
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Informative Speaking
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- want listeners to understand topic better
- must keep neutral stance
- avoid motivational appeals
8
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Expository Presentations
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- explains term, concept, object/place
9
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Process or Demonstration Presentation
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- explains how something works, how to do something
- chronological pattern is often best
10
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Narrative Presentations
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- describes event, tells story
11
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Comparison/Contrast Presentation
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- presents similarities, differences
- topical pattern of organization
12
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Choose a Personally Involving Topic
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- pick something that evokes a personal sense of passion
13
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Capture—and Hold—Listeners’ Attention
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- begin with compelling introduction
- explain how audience benefits from speech’s information
- hold their attention during rest of presentation
- use supporting materials
14
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Use Conversational Language
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- creates sense of immediacy with audience
- makes us appear relatable and likeable
- helps people quickly understand what we’re saying
-makes messages more appealing
15
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Make the Speech Content Understandable
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- connect ideas unfamiliar to an audience to concepts/things that are familiar
