Journal: Great-grandpa Rotondo doesn

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Journal Great-grandpa Rotondo doesnt understand
what a video game is. Or an iPod. Or text
messaging. Pick one of the aboveor any other
technological invention or process that wasnt
around when Great-grandpa was younger. Explain
what it is in terms that even the most
un-technological person can understand.
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Ch. 10

• Speaking to Inform

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Types of Informative Speaking

• Informative Speaking a public communication in
  which a speaker imparts new knowledge or more
  in-depth information on a specific topic to an
  audience.
• Can be about ANYTHING that you wish to let an
  audience know about objects, events, people,
  places, etc.

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Types of Informative Speaking

• Speeches about Objects speeches about particular
  items in our physical world.
• EXAMPLES
• The Grand Canyon
• Guitars
• Your favorite band
• Speeches about Events speeches about anything
  that has happened or is happening
• EXAMPLES
• This summers warped tour
• The American Revolution
• Your trip to Asia last spring break

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Types of Informative Speaking

• Speeches about Processes speeches focused on
  having the audience understand how to do
  something or being able to actually do something.
• EXAMPLES
• How to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• How tennis is played
• Speeches about Concepts speeches dealing with
  beliefs, theories, ideas, and principles.
• EXAMPLES
• Democracy
• Religion
• Politics

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Beginning an Informative Speech

• You need to gain the audiences attention using
  an ATTENTION DEVICE
• a technique used to gain or maintain the
  attention of an audience.
• Also called Attention Grabber/Getter

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Types of Attention Grabbers

• Humor an attention-getting device using
  something funny.
• Anecdote a short story, often humorous, that is
  related to a speakers topic and is used to
  capture listeners attention.

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Attention Grabbers Continued

• Shock Technique an attention-getting device used
  to demand instantaneous attention from the
  audience by using a hard-to-believe or upsetting
  statement.
• Quotation the verbatim statement of a persons
  words or writings.

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Attention Grabbers

• Dramatic Statement a startling,
  attention-getting message used during a speech.
• Rhetorical Question a question that is not meant
  to be answered aloud.
• Suspense an attention-getting device developed
  by temporarily withholding specific information
  from the audience.

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Using Visual Aids

• Will it help the audience understand?
• Will it make things more meaningful?

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Types of Visual Aids

• Chart a visual aid that is a drawing showing the
  relationships among the parts of a whole (often
  relies on words rather than simply on lines).

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Types of Visual Aids

• Graph a visual aid that gives large amounts of
  information (usually quantitative or numerical)
  at a single glance.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Diagram a visual aid that relies on lines rather
  than words to show the relationship of parts to a
  whole.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Map a visual aid showing information of a
  geographical nature.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Poster a visual aid consisting of print or
  lettering.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Cartoon a visual aid consisting of a funny or
  satirical drawing used to make a point.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Picture a visual aid in the form of a drawing,
  photograph, slide, filmstrip, or film.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Object a visual aid that is the actual item
  being referred to.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Model a visual aid consisting of a scaled-down
  version of an object.

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Types of Visual Aids Continued

• Cutaway a visual aid consisting of a model with
  a section of the outer covering removed to show
  the interior parts.

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Types of Visual Aids

• Handout a visual aid given to each member of an
  audience.