1. Informational Speaking Your First Primer

2. Two Things Everyone Should Know: Your subject Your audience

3. Three Things to Insure a Great Speech Preparation

4. What’s the Difference? Informational PersuasiveHumorous

6. Got Butterflies? Know the subject Know the audience Know the room Relax Visualize Realize people want you to succeed Don’t apologize Concentrate on Message, not medium Turn nervousness into positive energy Gain experience

7. Speaking to Inform: Judging Criteria Is the information communicated accurately? Is the information communicated clearly? Is the information made meaningful and interesting to the audience?

8. Speaking to Inform Can be about –Objects –Processes –Events –Concepts

9. Speeches about Objects (visible, tangible and stable in form) The Stock Market Cars The Human Eye General Norman Schwartzkopf Sea Lions Personal Digital Assistant

10. Speeches about Processes (a systematic series of actions leading to a specific result or product) CPR How Oriental Rugs are Made How to Create Your own Web Page How Tsunamis Develop How to Dance the Tango

11. Speeches about Events (anything that happened) WW II The Civil Rights Movement The Olympics The Civil War The Hindenburg Disaster The Iditerod

12. Speeches about Concepts (beliefs, theories, ideas, principles, etc.) Principles of Feminism Freudian Psychology Hinduism Theories of Learning Reagan’s Trickle Down Theory of Economics The Big Bang Theory

13. Lucas’s Guidelines for Informative Speaking Don’t overestimate your audience (explain with examples) Relate subject to your audience (get and keep them involved) Don’t be too technical (avoid jargon) Avoid abstractions (use comparisons) Personalize your ideas (dramatize in human terms)

14. Let’s Critique an Example…