Informative-Speaking Purposive Communication

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CHAPTER 12: INFORMATIVE SPEAKING

OBJECTIVE:

 To explain or describe facts, truth & principles in a way that stimulates interest,
facilitates understanding and increase the likelihood of remembering.
 Design to educate audience.

Characteristic of Effective Informative Speaking

Intellectually stimulating

 New information that piques their curiosity & excites their interest.
 If your audiences are familiar with your topic- identify new insights
o What your audience do not know.
o Consider: depth: going beyond people’s general
knowledge
 Eg: people know basic recipe, show new ways
to cook it.
: breadth: how your topic relates to associated
topics
 Eg: type 1 diabetes – physical effect,
emotional effects, relational effects

Relevant

 Listener relevance link: show how your points are important to listener;
throughout your speech.
o Eg: how the information you share make them wealthier,
healthier or happier.
 Compare unfamiliar topic with something audience are familiar with
and relevant to their lives.
o Eg: Relational effects of living with diabetes to other chronic
disease such as heart disease.
Creative

 Innovative ideas
 Comes from good research, time & productive thinking

Memorable

 Emphasize on specific goals, main ideas & key facts.

Diverse learning styles

 Develop your speeches in ways that address diverse learning.


o Eg: people who prefer to learn through feeling; provide
concrete & vivid images, examples & stories.
o People who prefer learning with visual aids; provide them with
appropriate facial expression & gestures.

METHOD OF INFORMING

Description

 Create an accurate, vivid, verbal picture of an object, geographical


features, setting event, person or image.

Definition

 Method of explaining meaning of something.


 4 ways:
i. Define a word or idea
ii. Explain its derivation or history
iii. Explain its use or function
iv. Use synonym
Comparison & Contrast

 Explain and inform how something is similar or different from others


Eg: vegetarian vs non vegetarian

Narration
 Method of informing that recounts an autobiographical or
biographical event
 Story telling – 4 parts
i. Describe when & where the event took place.
ii. Explain the sequence of events that lead to complication/
conflict.
iii. How complication / conflict affect the key people in the
narrative.
iv. How the complication / conflict are solved.

Demonstration

 Inform by showing how something is done.


 Displays stages of a process.
 Requires expertise, a hierarchy of steps & vivid language and
presentational aids.
 You experience with what you are demonstrating.
COMMON INFORMATIVE FRAMEWORK

Process speeches  Demonstrates how something are done.


 The steps: main point
 Concrete explanation: sub-point

Expository speech  Provide carefully researched, in-depth knowledge about a


complex topic.
 Requires speakers to use extensive research base

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