Speaking To Inform

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Appendix B

HCOM 100
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 Speaking to Inform PREVIEW
 Types of informative Presentations
 Strategies for Making Your Informative
Presentation
•Clear
•Interesting
•Memorable
 Speaking to inform
 The purpose of a message to inform is
to share information with others to
enhance their knowledge or
understanding of the information
 When you inform someone, you assume
the role of teacher by defining,
illustrating, clarifying, or elaborating on
the topic.
 Types of Informative
Presentations

 About Objects
 About Procedures
 About People
 About Events
 About Ideas
 Strategies for Making Your
Informative Presentation Clear
 A message is clear when it is understood
by the listener in the way the speaker
intended.
• Be aware of what you intend to communicate
• Select appropriate words that are reinforced
with appropriate nonverbal cues
• Adapt your message to your audience
 Strategies for Making Your
Informative Presentation Clear
 Simplify Ideas
 Pace your Information Flow
 Relate New Information to Old
• analogy
 Strategies for Making Your
Informative Presentation Interesting
 Relate to your Listeners’ Interests
 Use Attention-Catching Supporting
Material
 Establish a Motive for Your Audience to
Listen to You
 Use Word Pictures
 Create Interesting Presentation Aids
 Use Humor
 Strategies for Making Your
Informative Presentation Memorable
 Build in Redundancy
 Use Adult Learning Principles
 Reinforce Key Ideas Verbally
 Reinforce Key Ideas Nonverbally
 Strategies for Making Your
Informative Presentation Memorable
 Adult Learner Preferences
• To be given information they can use immediately
• To be actively involved in the learning process
• To connect their life experiences with the new
information they learn
• To know how the new information is relevant to their
busy lives
• To receive information that is relevant to their needs
 Strategies for Informative
Presentations

 RECAP
• Make your message clear
• Make your message interesting
• Make your message memorable
Appendix B – Sample Speech

 Informative Example:
• The Helinx Process
 The Helinx Process
Example Informational Speech
 Intro
• Attention Getter
• Preview of all main
points • Transition
• Transition • Refutation
• Solution
• Point One
 Body • Evidence
• Need/Problem  Conclusion
• Point One • Restate Attention-getter
• Evidence
• Review of main points
• Point Two
• Call to action
• Evidence
What questions do you have?

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