 Purpose of INFORMATIVE SPEAKING is to educate your audience on a certain topic.  Information is RESEARCH BASED  Information MUST BE presented: › Accurately › Clearly › Meaningfully and Interestingly

 Processes  Objects  Events  Concepts

 Information on how to complete a task or explain how a process works  Goal: Teach the audience how to complete a task  Examples: How to fill out permit forms, how to play a card game, how to collect stamps › This type of speech is NOT an option for YOUR SPEECH

 Object, Animal, Places or People  Goal: Inform audience about topic in an INTERESTING WAY  Examples: Abraham Lincoln, an extinct animal, Paris, or the new iPhone 5  Must be a creative topic for YOUR SPEECH

 Information on a past, present or future event  Goal: Inform audience on events of what occurred and understand what and why it happened.  Rather than a timeline, you may connect between events of the past and events of the present.  Examples: Pearl Harbor, September 11 th, The Great Depression

 Informs an audience on certain beliefs, ideas and theories.  Goal: Provide information to help audience understand a concept they may have little knowledge of.  Examples: Religions, Social Issues, Government

 Chronological Pattern  Climactic Pattern  Cause-Effect Pattern  Problem-Solution Pattern

 Speech is organized in a time sequence › Puts things in order of which they happened  Gives audience a complete picture from beginning to end.  What type of informative speech would this work well with?

 Organize speech main points in order of importance  Gives dramatic build-up  What type of informative speech would this work well with?

 Organizes speech in which the “causes” lead to the “effects” › “because of that, this happens”  Example: › Anorexia  Causes  Media Influence  Low Self-Esteem  Effects  Physical Problems  Emotional Problems  What type of informative speech would this work well with?

 Organizes speech introducing the problems within a subject and offers possible solutions.  Example: › Child Hunger  Problem  Malnutrition  Cost  Solution  Non-Profit Organizations  Conservation  What type of informative speech would this work well with?