Types of Informative Speeches
Guidelines for Informative Speaking
Random Questions Over Chapter 15
Key Terms
Review Questions
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What are the four types of informative speeches?
Speeches about Objects, Processes, Events, and Concepts
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How many guidelines are they for informative speaking?
6
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When starting a speech the speaker should start with what in his opening?
Start with a richly detailed extended example that captures the audiences attention and interest.
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What is a speech to convey knowledge and understanding?
Informative Speech
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What guideline are description, comparison, and contrast associated with?
Avoid Abstractions
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What are the traits for speeches about objects?
The object has moving parts or alive; includes places, structures,animals, or even people.
200
What does it mean to say an informative speech is too technical?
The subject is too specialized for the audience.
200
Having videos in presentations are known as what type of aid to help the audience.
Visual aid
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What is anything that happens or is regarded as happening?
Event
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What are the three ways your speech will be judged?
Is the Information communicated accurately? Is the Information communicated clearly? Is the information made meaningful and interesting to audience?
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What do speeches about processes explain?
How something is made, How something is done, or How something works
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How do you make sure to not to overestimate what the audience know?
Explain everything so thoroughly that they cannot help but understand.
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When informing about a process, you will usually arrange your speech in what kind of order?
Chronological order
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What is anything that is visible, tangible, and stable in form?
Object
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What kind of organization is used in speeches about events?
Chronological or Topical order
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Name two angles you can approach a speech about events.
features, origins, implications, benefits, future developments
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How would you personalize a informational speech?
Try to personalize your ideas and dramatize them in human terms.
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As the speaker continues his opening examples he reveals what kind of information to the audience?
The speaker reveals explanations on the examples mentioned in the opening statement.
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What does concept mean?
belief, theory, idea, notion, principle, or the like
400
What two words should be used frequently use to relate your topic directly to the audience?
Frequently use "you" and "your".
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What order are speeches about objects organized?
chronological, spatial, or topical order
500
Name the three way to avoid abstractions.
Description, Comparison, and Contrast
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The Random House Dictionary defines an event as “anything that happens” or “is regarded as happening.” By this definition what are some examples of suitable subjects.
Festival in the Sun, Battle at Little Bighorn, The Olympic Games
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What is a systematic series of actions that leads to a specific result or product?
Process
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What ways can you be creative in an informative speech?
technical language, avoiding abstractions, personalizing ideas, or adapting to the audience's knowledge about the topic
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