Unit Two: Part One

Unit Two: Part One

Chapter 12

Let's parse out the definition of Informative Speaking

Where to begin?

Process: how coffee is made

Event: CSU's "Overpopulation..." panel

Places & People: newest supreme court justice

Object: African serval as a common house pet

Concept: Global Sustainability

Organizational Patterns

How do you arrange your topic?

Informative Speaking

Examples:

Getting to Know Your Audience: Theory & Application

Chronological (time): ex. to inform of the history of the Ford Mustang

Spatial (location): ex. to inform about the different parts of the guitar to produce sound

Causal (cause-effect): ex. to inform about the cause of onion's tearful effect and methods to avoid tearing up

Topical (you choose): ex. to inform about the dark history and origins of nursery rhymes

Chapter 4

What does this mean? Definitions

Group Activity

• In groups of 3 or 4, generate a list of 5 potential informative speech topics.
• Next, identify where each topic fits into the definition of informative speaking
• Finally, pair each topic with the best organizational pattern for that topic

Turn in a finalized copy of your group activity

Everyone has a master status(es)

• significant positions occupied by a person within society that affect that person's identity in almost all social situations (p. 61)

This is more simple than you think; consider social categories and descriptions

What are your master statuses?

Activity: generate a list of your master statuses (the more the better) than use Demographic Audience Analysis to make connections with your classmates.

Consider areas of similarity and difference. Both are important.

Informative Speech: speech that communicates knowledge and understanding about a process, an event, a person or place, an object, or a concept (p. 222)

Tips and Techniques

Engaging the Audience

• Bring your topic to life
• Stay Audience-Centered
• Use clear and unbiased language

Informative Speaking Environment: environment in which a speaker has expertize or knowledge that an audience needs but doesn't already have

How do speakers become audience-centered?

After your speech, your audience should respond with "that's interesting...I didn't know that"

Use clarity in your visual aids

Let's critique mine: What is good? What could be improved?

Dialogue: interaction, connection, and exchange of ideas and opinions with others

Questions?

Let's look at an example informative speech and critique it as a group after the video. Remember not all of these examples are exemplary; they have (multiple) areas of improvement

Youtube: "A Different Kind of Beetle"

CSU's "Great Things to Do in ND"

Other examples: Canvas or Cengage

Audience-Centered: acknowledging your audience by considering and listening to the unique, diverse, and common perspectives of its members before, during, and after the speech (p. 59)

Audience: complex and varied group of people

Get to Know Your Audience

Not Stereotyping

• broad generalization about an entire group based on limited knowledge or exposure to only certain members of that group

Conduct Audience Analysis to avoid Stereotyping:

• Open-Ended Questions
• Close-Ended Questions
• Probe - Q's that fills out or follows up previous Q's and answers

All good analysis includes Empathy

Practical Implications too:

• speaking environment, technology, temporal factors

Gov. Conspiracy

The lunar landing was a fake

That's just the surface

What underlies master statuses?

Politics

• Standpoint: perspective or view
• Attitude: positive or neg. feeling
• Belief: real/fake, true/false
• Value: good, worthy, valuable

Let's tease these ideas out

Remember: every voice is valid