Speech 2 Informative

Speech 2: Informative

TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD (OR BAD?)

5-6 minutes

Purpose: The speech serves three purposes. 1) The purpose of this speech assignment is for you to learn how to effectively explain, illustrate, and/or educate your audience on various topics through researching, writing, and delivering an informative speech.

Informative speech- a speech whose goal is to explain or describe facts, truths, and principles, in a way that stimulates interests, facilitates understanding, and increases the likelihood of remembering.

2) The idea is to create informative speeches that make meaningful contribution to public discourse. When given a platform, what will you say? There is a time and a place for the “How to change a flat tire” speech. This AIN’T it! 3) The previous purposes should also be lead by gathering and evaluating research. Consider how history is told from a perspective that often mutes voices of marginalized and oppressed communities. Consider the stories we don’t hear. How does media, political binaries, our own biases (etc.) distort the messages or purpose of various social, political, or cultural issues. TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD…OR BAD. Deliver an informative speech that is useful and relevant for the general public. This can manifest many ways:

· a hidden history

· the origins or demise of a movement or time period

· an in-depth look into a prominent figure, a policy, a people group/culture/community

· just dropping knowledge on an issue close to your heart

Objective: This speech should be an original effort to inform your audience about your topic in an interesting manner. The majority of the speech should consist of NEW or not widely known information. This speech should help us to continue to focus on the structure of a speech while adding research. The informative unit requires us to work our research muscle. It is not enough to gather, take in and use information. We should always evaluate. Then always give credit to the source. This requires an oral citation. As always, be creative!

Audience: Most messages and public address is aimed toward the general public. Consider what it means to construct a message for the general public. Be careful not to assume what people know by speaking jargon for a specific knowledge. Be careful not to assume your audience is ignorant by delivering an overly simplified speech.

The speech should be interesting, well organized, and competently presented with cited sources. Not adhering to the following will results in points being deducted:

· 5-6 minutes

· Speeches must have a least 3 different research sources. One of theses sources must be scholarly (from a research database). Your information/sources should be either factual statements (statistics, examples definitions), expert opinion, or elaboration (anecdote or narrative). You must have at least two different types of relevant information.

· For clarity- you must have a minimum of 3 sources. One must be scholarly. Of the three sources, 2 may be the same type of information, but to provide diverse evidence, you must have something different.

· Additionally, all types of folks do research. Let’s TRY to get some research from people of color, women, queer, disabled, varying ages, etc in this. This is a best practice suggestion with strong emphasis, not a graded measure.

· Outline and bibliography must be turned in.