SPEECH TO INFORM

Informative Speech

 

PURPOSE OF THE SPEECH TO INFORM

 

An informative speech

 

provides information to an audience. The purpose of an informative speech is to help

your audience understand and remember the information you are presenting.

While no one can foretell

accurately what kind of speeches you may be called upon to present in the future, it is a safe bet that you will speak many times to inform people. Because so many speeches are informative in nature, you are offered here

the opportunity to become acquainted with the informative speech.

 

Explanation of the speech to inform

The speech to inform people provides them a clear underst anding of the speaker‘s ideas on a subject. It also arouses interest in the subject because the material which is presented is relevant to the lives of those who hear

it. It is important that the speaker provide this material while making it relevant and interesting to the audience.

 

To accomplish the ends of informative speaking, it is necessary

to select a subject of interest to

himself and his listeners. This can be done by analyzing the audience

 in this case your classmates. You as the speaker are charged further with the serious responsibility of knowing what you are talking about,

knowing more about it, in fact, than anyone in your audience does. For this reason, your talk demands that you study not one but several sources of

 information.