You’ve crafted the Informative Speech Outline–yay! Now, it’s time for you to use this outline, and the feedback you’ve been offered, to create your 5-6 minute, video-recorded, informative speech. This assignment strictly builds from the Informative Speech Outline assignment; we encourage you to review the outline’s assignment details to further inform your work on this assignment.
Prompt
Record yourself presenting a 5-6 minute speech either defining, describing, explaining or demonstrating something you are passionate about. Include a fully-drafted copy of this speech with your submission.
Expectations
The informative speech is a way for you to share knowledge with your identified audience about a subject you are passionate about. As noted in the previous assignment, you are increasing awareness–not making an argument. As the speaker in this situation, then, you are responsible for identifying an information-sharing approach that serves this specific purpose, by describing, defining, explaining, or demonstrating, your topic, and your passion for it.
Organization
As noted in the Informative Speech Outline assignment, this speech will describe, define, explain, or demonstrate something that you are passionate about. As a reminder, an informative speech conveys knowledge. When done well, information can provide a new perspective or increase our knowledge around a topic. As the speaker, you are responsible for identifying an argument that is not only worthwhile, but is something for which you are passionate—and either describing it, defining it, explaining it or demonstrating it to/for your audience. Here is what those informative purposes look like:
Purpose
Explanation
Example
To Describe
Speeches of description provide a clear, vivid, and memorable picture of a person, place, thing, idea, or alternative. In this category, your goal is to effectively describe your topic in ways that allow the audience to visualize that idea.
Describe the magic of a 3D printer and describe how new material is created.
To Define
Definitional speeches provide the meaning of an idea to the audience. These speeches are helpful to clarify or simplify concepts, theories, or ideas that an audience may be otherwise unfamiliar.
Define the magic of 3D printing, the history, key events, or figures.
To Explain
Speeches of explanation detail processes or how something works, often explaining an otherwise complex, abstract, or unfamiliar idea to the audience. This approach is common in industry-settings or professional contexts where a speaker needs to explain the process, data, or results of a study or program.
Explain the science behind the magic of 3D printing and how it affects different industries.
