PERSONAL ASSIGNMENT

PUBLIC SPEAKING

THE INFORMATIVE SPEECH

MEMBER OF GROUPS:

ELPERINDA SILAEN 201210005

JELLY HUTAGAOL 200610003

GRACE TURNIP

RUBEN LEOPOLDO

MURNIWATI NDRURU

ENGLISH LITERATURE DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

PUTERA BATAM UNIVERSITY

2022/2023
 THE IN FORMATVE SPEECH

1.Information Please

Much has been made of different kinds of speeches. Two of these, the persuasive and the
entertaining speeches, require quite a bit of specialized effort. Informative speeches aim to
educate an audience on a particular topic or message. Unlike demonstrative speeches, they don't
use visual aids. They do, however, use facts, data and statistics to help audiences grasp a
concept. These facts and statistics help back any claims or assertions you make.
Public speaking is a skill that everyone needs at some point in their academic or
professional career. In this course, you learned how to research, outline, and deliver different
types of speeches. For this assignment, please prepare and deliver a 5-10-minute informative
speech with accompanying visual aids. Here are some guidelines to follow for your project:

 Choose an appropriate topic for an informative speech. We recommend choosing a topic

you're familiar enough with that you can comfortably fill a 5-10-minute time period.
Remember that the purpose of an informative speech is to educate those listening to you
on your topic of choice. Informative speeches can be about objects, processes, concepts
or an event.

 Choose appropriate visual aids that would work best for your presentation, such as
slideshows, poster boards, demonstrations, etc. If you choose to do a slideshow, please
use PowerPoint or a suitable alternative (such as Google Slides).

 Record yourself delivering your speech using a camera and save the recording. Your
computer webcam should work just fine. Make sure you set up the recording to capture
your gestures and expressions.

 You may refer to notes or index cards during the speech; however, please be sure to
maintain eye contact with the camera.

2. Research the Topic

When you are deciding whether to accept an invitation to speak, be sure you have enough
time to do sufficient research, especially if you have only a superficial grasp of the subject. It is
important to vary the research. When I first began to research for my oil and war speech, I relied
entirely on books. I had originally had been trying to find how nature had affected history, and
while there were a few books already published on this subject, my search seemed fruitless. It
was in looking for magazine and newspaper articles that I found related subjects that were
different than just nature and history, and launched me onto the topic of oil and war. Not only
can looking in a variety of sources lead one to new topics, it also can provide a different style of
displaying data. Starting a search for information about a topic strictly from books is often very
difficult. While books include a lot of information, it is usually up to the reader to wade through
the ocean of information to find the specific quote or concept they are looking for. The
information from magazine articles can be quickly extracted and can point the researcher in other
directions. Some of the best information I gained for my oil and war speech was from magazines
that had nuggets of wisdom which would have taken days to gain through strictly looking at
books.

The Internet also provides information very quickly. By merely typing in a keyword you
can gain numerous informational sites leading to many different topic ideas. I think the best way
to way to research is to start out with an Internet search to provide a general concept of the topic.
Next, move on to move on to an Infotrac or Lexus/Nexus magazine based search, which will
give you background information in a short, concise manner. Finally, begin to limit the research
to books towards the end of the research process, as they will provide the larger concepts and
more detailed information.Research should be from credible sources. This tip is a little obvious.

3.Structure Your Speech

Organizing speeches serves two important functions. First, organization helps improve
clarity of thought in a systematic way. Second, organization increases the likelihood that the
speech will be effective
Audiences are unlikely to understand disorganized speeches and even less likely to think
that disorganized speakers are reliable or credible. Speeches are organized into three main parts:
introduction, body, and conclusion.
• Introduction
the introduction of the speech establishes the first, crucial contact between the speaker and the
audience. For most classroom speeches, the introduction should last less than a minute. The
introduction needs to accomplish three things.
• Body
In the body, the fewer the main points the better. For short classroom speeches, under 10
minutes, speeches should not have more than three main points. For longer speeches,
more than five main points ensures that audiences will have trouble following and
remembering the speech. In the speech, main points should be clearly stated and
"signposted," marked off as distinct and important to the audience. Transitions often
serve to signpost new points, as do pauses before an important idea. Additionally,
speakers might number main points—first, second, third or first, next, finally. Always
make it easy for the audience to recognize and follow key ideas.
• Conclusion
Following a transition from the body of the speech, the conclusion follows. The
conclusion should be somewhat shorter than the introduction and accomplishes two
purposes: summarize main ideas and give the speech a sense of closure and completion.
Good conclusions might refer back to the introduction, offer an analogy or metaphor that
captures the main idea, or leave the audience with a question or a challenge of some type.
Brief quotations can also make effective conclusions (just as they can make effective
openings for introductions).
 4. Grand Opening

Get the audience’s attention, or the rest of your speech is a waste. I mean it! Most people
spend the majority of their speech preparation time working on the body of their speech and then
they tack on an opening and a closing last minute.

The opening and closing deserve the most attention. Why? If you don’t get the
audience’s attention and get them to pay attention to you instead of… the thoughts in their
heads, their grocery lists, their neighbors, their social media…then all the rest of your brilliant
content is wasted because they will never hear it. Lisa Marshall of Toastmasters International
stresses the opening words are so important that “I spend 10 times more time developing and
practicing the opener than any other part of the speech.”
Look at the description of Person A and Person B and tell me which person you like more.

5. Strategy for the Body

Somehow, you have managed to retain the attention of the audience through the body of
the speech without too many falling asleep. Perhaps it was the dramatic rise and fall of your
voice, the hilarious asides, the amazing statistics, or striking slides (not to mention the jumping
jacks you had everyone do at the halfway point).
There are many ways you can approach how to lay out the information so that the audience can
readily understand it and the relationships of the parts to the whole. Without an obvious pattern
to give context, people have a difficult time absorbing and retaining information that fits into a
bigger picture of why they should care about it.

1. Alphabetical
2. Cause and Effect
3. Chronology
4. Complexity or Difficulty
5. Geographic or Spatial
6. Letter Sequence
7. Extended Analogy or Metaphor
8. Numerical Order
9. Problem and Solution
10. Trends
11. Type
6.The Grand Finale
Somehow, you have managed to retain the attention of the audience through the
body of the speech without too many falling asleep. Perhaps it was the dramatic rise and
fall of your voice, the hilarious asides, the amazing statistics, or striking slides (not to
mention the jumping jacks you had everyone do at the halfway point).