The Informative Speech

Guidelines for Informative Speaking – in informative speeches, you tell listeners something they don’t already know.

Guidelines for informative speeches include:

• Limit the Amount of Information: don’t overload your audience with too much information; covering two new ideas in depth is better than skimming through five
• Adjust the Level of Complexity: a series of prepared presentations much like public speeches, all speeches address different aspects of a single problem, a leader introduces the speakers and provides transitions from one speaker to another
• Stress Relevance and Usefulness: audiences best remember information related to their own goals and needs
• Relate New Information to Old: use information your audience already knows as a springboard to the new information you will present
• Make Your Speech Easy to Remember: using the principles of public speaking (e.g., effective language use, organization, and delivery) enhances the audience’s ability to retain the information.

Some specific suggestions for making a speech memorable include:

• Repeat the points you want the audience to remember
• Use guided language (e.g., “My first point is” “This is important to remember”)
• Use internal summary transitions to remind an audience of what you have said and how it relates to what will follow
• Pattern your messages by using an organization that is logical and parallel construction of main points
• Focus audience attention (e.g., “I ask you focus on these three things”)

A speech about objects, people, events or concepts (excluding anything medical or disease-related).

SPECIFIC PURPOSE: ________________________________________

Your topic should incorporate the following:

• creativity,
• originality,
• the needs and interests of your audience.
• Video editing and video stopping/pausing are NOT allowed. 

Here I uploaded a sample outline.