I’m going to discuss the
“Guidelines for Effective Informative Speeches”. Because proper planning and
preparation plays such an important role in the efficiency and success of your
informative speech, it is helpful to follow five valuable tips to insure an
excellent presentation.
First, keep your speech
informative. This means that you will try and avoid interjecting your own
opinion, evaluation, suggestions, or personal views on a subject. You are there
strictly to share information through description, explanation, or
demonstration.
Second, make your speech topic come
alive. You can do this by
demonstrating a positive attitude and connecting the audience to the topic in
meaningful ways. This can be achieved by exciting your audience’s imagination
using vivid language to describe your main points.
Third, connect your topic to your
audience. As a speaker, you can encourage your audience to pay attention and
focus on your topic by connecting it to their general life experiences (if they
are unfamiliar with the topic). If your audience is familiar with the topic
then you can hold their attention by reinforcing commonalities between yourself
and the audience. It’s also important to help them understand how the topic is
significant or beneficial in their own lives.
Fourth, inform to educate.
Informative speeches are good for more than just informing the audience. In an
informative speech you want to educate your audience so that they will
understand the importance and nature of the topic. People usually respond best to information that they feel
will enhance their lives in some way. Therefore, if you would like to educate
your audience you must demonstrate how your topic is relevant to the lives
and/or values of the audience.
Fifth, use presentation media to inform. It’s important to use the right amount
of visual aids and to use them at the right time. Limiting your presentation
media and delivering them in a smooth, rhythmic, and confident fashion can
increase the potential impact of your media and can make your informative
speech a positive experience for you and your audience.
HI Elise-
ReplyDeleteThanks for thaking those topics on page 262-265 and condensing them for me . That helped a bunch. The one that stood out for me is the third one; "Connect your Topic to Your Audience". My topic is a popular one but it may not be one that anyone cares about. I'm going to focus on making it one that they care about. How am I going to do this? I'm not sure...yet. I think I may focus on the economics of it. Money is a universal language we all speak. I
ll try that angle. Then other topics you wrote about work too.I'll work the "Inform to Educate" angle as well. If I can educate them, then maybe I can connect with them. The last thing I want this to be is boring. Thanks for the post.
F.D.
I thought that this blog entry was very concise and an excellent refresher for me of some of the important information from the reading this week specifically pertaining to our upcoming speeches. I will definitely be doing my best to keep a positive attitude to make my speech topic come alive. I also think that the information you specified in your third tip is something that I want to utilize. Finding commonalities with my audience and connecting my topic to their general life experience are two of the best ways that I can keep them engaged during my speech. I think that your post was so well written and succinct that rather than going back to the reading, I may just come back to your blog to read this post as I am preparing for my speech to remind me of these important, yet simple guidelines. My speech is about a subject that could be considered dull, so it will be up to me to give a speech that is interesting to make the topic come alive for my audience.
ReplyDeleteYou broke this topic down very well in an easy to understand way! Proper planning and preparation is very important. The part on keeping your speech informative, I had a hard time with this when coming up with a topic and planning my speech. I kept wanting to try to persuade the audience or put my own personal opinion on it, so yes it is very important to keep in mind when planning your speech. Keeping your topic alive and connecting to your audience is also very important. This is what keeps your audience interested throughout the speech, after you gained their attention in the attention getter. This was a great post! Thanks for sharing!
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