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In this video we'll be talking about the basics of informative speaking. So before we
actually get too much into how to do informative speaking and all that we need to have a
little bit of background knowledge, so let's go ahead and jump into that
we'll be talking about
informative speaking as opposed to persuasive speaking as well as the types of
informative speeches that we might be giving
so first off let's talk about how informative speaking differs from persuasive
speaking
a lot of people prefer giving persuasive speeches over informative speeches, and it
make sense
When you're giving a persuasive speech you're telling the audience
what you want them to do that you think that you have a better way of doing
something or a better way of thinking about something than they do
and you're trying to convince them that you're right and that they should agree with you
that happens a lot in our day to day lives, right? We try to convince people that we know
what's going on
however that's not what we're trying to do with an informative speech
with an informative speech, we're not trying to influence our audience. What we're trying to do
is our provide our audience with information
and we try to provide them with information
so they can try and make a decision on their own about what they believe about a
topic
so really what's important about informative speaking, and the biggest thing to remember
about informative speaking
in terms of its being different than persuasive speaking
is when we speak to inform were seeking to be objective
so we need
present information for the both sides of the issue
we can just say
you should go out and you should start
uh... voting
independent
for instance
we need to say
these are the positive aspects of the voting independent and these are the negative
aspects of voting independent
Then our audience members can say "okay,
these are the benefits I can see and these are the detriments I can see and based on how this
fits into my experiences and my own knowledge knowledge this is what I should be doing
so we don't ever say at the end of an informative speech "you should do this"
instead will say something like "with this information we can make better
decisions"
"with this information we'll know what we want to do in the future"
that type of thing
so that's how informative and persuasive speeches differ
there are three different types of informative speeches
the first type that we might give
the first type of informative speech we might give would be a speech to impart knowledge
now when you're imparting knowledge
what you're doing is you've looked at your audience and said "okay, about this topic
I'm talking about
my audience doesn't know anything about it, so I need to just to have a broad
overview of the topic
I'm not going to go super indepth about this
instead what I'm gonna do is I'm going to give my audience a chance to start to understand more about it"
Okay? so for example
if you're going to give a speech about
bandages
that are made out of shrimp shells which actually do exist
your audience members might not know anything about that. There's a product called
Celox that's made of these shrimp shells that
uh...
seals up
injuries or wounds
and it's a really cool product. If I wanted to give a speech about that
and I thought "you know I don't think anybody in my audience knows about this
type of bandage"
then i would need to make sure that i'm creating and imparting knowledge for this
speech
basically what i would need to do is I'd need to say okay
These are the most important parts about this bandage
this is stuff that people need to know
so I need to organize this information in this way
You start at the very beginning
and you help your audience start to understand
The second type of informative speech you might give years
might be a deepening understanding speech
we try to deepen understanding for your audience
what you're assuming is that your audience already knows something about the topic
so what you're going to be telling them is some more in-depth information
so i think the topic of eggs
i think most of us in an audience would probably know what an egg is
we probably already understand
what you can do with eggs how you can cook eggs things like that
so if you want to give a speech about eggs to an audience
that already knows about them
what you need to do is you need to choose some information that we don't already
know
that you think we might be interested in
if we're a group of chemists and you're going to talk about eggs to a group of chemists
maybe you want to talk about the chemical makeup of eggs, or the way the
chemical makeup of eggs changes
as we cook them in a certain way that's the way it impacts their taste
so in terms of how you can deepen understanding, you need to think about
what your audience already knows about your topic
and then tell them something that they don't already know because if you're just
repeating stuff we already know
it's not going to be an interesting speech
the third type of informative speech the speech to permit application
and that's just a fancy way of saying that we're giving a "how to" speech, so at the end of our speech our audience should
know something or
know how to do something, how to accomplish something
so for instance you might be able to give permitting application speech about
making a peanut butter sandwich, now again, you don't want to give a speech about a topic
your audience already knows a lot about
because they're not going to care, they're not going to listen
you probably already understand how to make a
peanut butter sandwich, but
with a permitting application speech would do that step-by-step type of
thing to walk our audience members through it, so if you remember back to the
creating an outline speech it was something about how to make a low sodium
spaghetti sauce, so that would be an example of that permitting application speech
so think about what your audience already knows about your topic and then decide what type of information
would be helpful for them to know
and at the end of it make sure that you're not saying "so with this
information to you should do this"
cause that's a persuasive speech
instead you want to say "with this information
if you ever encountered a situation which you need it
you'll not be better prepared"