Assignment for the Informative Speech An Informative Speech is a speech that defines‚ describes‚ or explains a concept or idea‚ process or function; and occasionally‚ a thing‚ person or place. 1. Select a subject interesting to you and instructive for your audience. You will prepare a 6 minute informative speech on this subject. Speeches outside the time limit will receive a penalty. 2. The speech should include: a. an introduction which includes all five elements of a good introduction;
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COLLEGE OF FOUNDATION AND GENERAL STUDIES Program: Foundation Subject: English for Academic Purposes Code: ENGF 103 Credit Hours: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis: This course is designed to develop students’ public speaking skills. Students will be exposed to principles and practices of effective public speaking which are done through lectures‚ discussions‚ and class exercises. Most importantly
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Informative Speeches Informative.jpg An informative speech provides interesting and useful information to the audience. The information is unique and usually not something that the audience would be acquainted with. Objects‚ processes‚ events or concepts: Informative speeches can be about objects‚ processes‚ events or concepts. This is not a limited list‚ but a general topic format that most informative speeches tend towards. The important thing to realize is that no matter which topic
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Immediately‚ I had my topic chosen for the Oral Communications second speech‚ the Informative Speech; usually it takes me ages to come up with a subject‚ so it was nice to get the most difficult part of it out of the way straight from the get-go. I was prepared well in advance and had an extravagant introduction and conclusion planned. My outline and sources were finished and put together before many of my classmates that I knew of‚ and I was rehearsed and felt confident. It was an interesting
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Informative Speech Assignment Type: Informative Speech – must contain the essential characteristics of an informative speech: clarity‚ association of new ideas with old ones‚ coherence and motivational appeal. Length: Speech will be from 5 to 6 minutes. Topic: Above and beyond all else‚ an informative speech must share information with the audience that they don’t already know. Pick something that you know about and are interested in enough to research. The topic must also be relevant and/or
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Informative Speech Topics The following come from this site: http://www.goodspeechtopics.com/informational-speech-topics.html Informational Speech Topics 1. 1. Personality tests 2. 2. Who are the libertarians? 3. 3. Aromatheraphy 4. 4. What is inflation? 5. 5. Electric cars 6. 6. What was Watergate? 7. 7. Political parties 8. 8. Describe a piece of current legislation 9. 9. Biography of an important person...........who is...? 10. 10. History of an event (Halloween‚ etc.)‚ or describe
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Speech Topic: The Importance of Sleep Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about how a bad sleep can influence our body physically and mentally‚ and steps to improve the quality of sleep. Audience Analysis: (Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis)(RU Core Goal: a) Summarize Audience demographics‚ prior exposure/knowledge‚ common ground/interest‚ disposition/attitude‚ and situational characteristics. Recognizing that most of my audiences are busy with study and after-class activities‚
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thought that my Informative Speech went very well. There were a few things that I think I can improve on‚ but other than those little hiccups I think that I executed it very well. To prepare for the speech‚ I practiced three times. One time in front of my mother‚ one time in front of my whole family‚ then on time by myself. These practices really helped me feel more confident about what I was going to say and help me figure out what I needed to add and or put in to make the speech better. I felt
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David Hopper COMMS 2110 Austenfeld 04/02/16 Informative Speech Formal Outline Thesis: There are physical and social effects of alcohol that are not only detrimental to your own physiological and psychological well being‚ but also to those you interact with. I. Alcohol is a general term denoting a family of organic chemicals with common properties. Members of this family include ethanol‚ methanol‚ isopropanol‚ and others. This introduction discusses the physical‚ chemical‚ and physiological
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currently 2‚000 to 5‚000 cults active in the United States and about 10 to 20 million Americans have been or are currently involved in cults today (Clark 1 of 20). The word cult is defined as follows: “faddish devotion; a group of persons showing such devotion” (Webster Dictionary‚ 192). Although some believe that cults were a thing in the past‚ many do not know is that cults are not just a thing in the past; they are still being practiced and the effects are destructive. Cults play a negative role
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