Supporting Materials
A short but concrete specific instance used to illuminate a concept.
What is an Example?
New research, carried out to acquire data first-hand, rather than from previously published sources
What is Primary Research?
Discussing the history or development of something.
What is a Historical Informational Speech Topic?
"Not everyday is good, but there is something good in everyday."- My Mom
Who is Lola Walden?
Graph designed to show trends over time.
What is a Line Graph?
A support, often a story, used in speeches to interest the audience and clarify, dramatize, and emphasize events. It can be personal, historical, or hypothetical.
What is a Narrative?
Works published on a regular basis, such as magazines, academic journals, and newspapers.
What are Periodicals?
Focuses on people of some note, or fame.
What is a Biographical Informational Speech Topic?
“Treat others how you want to be treated.”
Who is Brantley Myhand?
Graph designed to show the differences between quantities.
What is a Bar Graph?
Setting limits and what a term means, how the audience should think about it, and/or how you will use it.
What is a Definition?
A research tool used to gather information about an audience's demographics, opinions, and knowledge on a topic.
What is a Survey?
These speeches require you to provide steps that will help your audience understand how to accomplish a specific task or process.
What is a Process Informational Speech Topic?
“Let Them”
Who is Addison Baston?
Graph designed to show proportional relationships within sets of data.
What is a Pie Graph?
Thinking in terms of the five senses.
What is a Description?
A structured conversation where one person asks questions to another person to gather information, insights, or stories.
What is an Interview?
Explains (most of the time) a question using definition methods, and examples that make your topic concrete, real, and specific.
What is an Idea or Concept Informational Speech Topic?
"Grow through what you go through."
Who is Aubrey Branan?
Graph using iconic symbols to dramatize differences in amounts.
What is a Pictograph?
Includes numerical facts and the more in-depth process of analyzing, comparing, and interpreting numerical data to understand its relationship to other numerical data?
What are Statistics?
An organized collection of information that a speaker uses for research to find reliable sources, such as academic journals, news archives, and statistics
What is a Database?
Topics that fall into a “general” category.
What is a Category or Division Informational Speech Topic?
"Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles." -Si Robertson
Who is Chant Brooks?
Drawings or sketches that outline or explain the parts of an object, process, or phenomenon that cannot be readily seen.
What is a Diagram?