Informative Speech
ORGC 201
Informative Speech Assignment
Create a 5-6 minute presentation using PowerPoint visuals. Make sure your PowerPoint follows the guidelines discussed in class. The purpose of the presentation should be to inform the audience. Your presentation should reflect a topic, theme, or issue relevant to your major. For ideas of topics, you may consider looking at issues of Crains’ Chicago, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, cnn.com, The Huffington Post, NPR.org, Slate, Wired, or industry-specific papers/journals in your area of study.
Presentations should reflect a careful analysis of audience interest and be relevant. Presentations should also reflect the theory we discussed in class including structuring and supporting a presentation (introduction, body, conclusion; transitions/connectives; supporting information).
Students should be sure to meet the time guidelines; you will be stopped from speaking after 6 minutes, 30 seconds, even if you have not completed your speech. Point deductions will apply if speeches are less than 5 minutes or more than 6 minutes, 30 seconds.
Students will present in random sort order; therefore, everyone should be in class and prepared to speak on Tuesday, April 29th. If you are not called to present on Tuesday, you will present Thursday, May 1st. (See Syllabus: speaking dates are not “freebie” attendance dates).
You can use the moveable podium. You should also email a copy of the powerpoint presentation to yourself, and/or save it on a USB key/jump drive. You will also have access to a slide advancer/clicker to advance slides away from the podium, if you like.
Per course policies, “missing an assigned presentation time will result in a grade of ‘zero’ for that assignment with no opportunity for make-up” (p. 3). ** Note: every quarter, at least two students mentally “psych themselves” out and don’t show up to speak, thinking they will not do well.
Informative Speech Assignment
Create a 5-6 minute presentation using PowerPoint visuals. Make sure your PowerPoint follows the guidelines discussed in class. The purpose of the presentation should be to inform the audience. Your presentation should reflect a topic, theme, or issue relevant to your major. For ideas of topics, you may consider looking at issues of Crains’ Chicago, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, cnn.com, The Huffington Post, NPR.org, Slate, Wired, or industry-specific papers/journals in your area of study.
Presentations should reflect a careful analysis of audience interest and be relevant. Presentations should also reflect the theory we discussed in class including structuring and supporting a presentation (introduction, body, conclusion; transitions/connectives; supporting information).
Students should be sure to meet the time guidelines; you will be stopped from speaking after 6 minutes, 30 seconds, even if you have not completed your speech. Point deductions will apply if speeches are less than 5 minutes or more than 6 minutes, 30 seconds.
Students will present in random sort order; therefore, everyone should be in class and prepared to speak on Tuesday, April 29th. If you are not called to present on Tuesday, you will present Thursday, May 1st. (See Syllabus: speaking dates are not “freebie” attendance dates).
You can use the moveable podium. You should also email a copy of the powerpoint presentation to yourself, and/or save it on a USB key/jump drive. You will also have access to a slide advancer/clicker to advance slides away from the podium, if you like.
Per course policies, “missing an assigned presentation time will result in a grade of ‘zero’ for that assignment with no opportunity for make-up” (p. 3). ** Note: every quarter, at least two students mentally “psych themselves” out and don’t show up to speak, thinking they will not do well.