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Purpose of Assignment:

The primary purpose of informative speaking is to ensure the audience's clear understanding of the ideas or issues you share with them.  The purpose of this speech is to present a clear explanation of complex material to the audience.  In other words, your task is to explain something that requires a human to explain it.  Your topic should be socially significant, intellectually challenging, informative and interesting to your audience; you should make it clear to your audience that they must listen, that they (their families, their communities) will be better for learning the complexities of your topic.

Speech:

• Your topic should be socially significant, informative and challenging to this audience.
• The speech should be 4:30 to 5:30 minutes in length (if outside 4:30 to 5:30 minutes, there will be a 10% grade reduction).
• The introduction and conclusion should be fully developed—that is, they should include the three clearly identifiable parts.
• Be prepared to answer questions from the audience after the conclusion of your speech.
• Your presentation skills should include:
• Natural and conversational delivery using notecards (i.e., you may not read from your notecards)
• Effective vocal and physical delivery skills
• Effective use of visual aids

Speech Organization:

• There should be a definite, logical connective/transition bridging each component of the speech.
• Each main point should be clearly stated and developed.
• Adhere to the principles of clear explanation.  Use organizers (signposts, enumeration, acronyms, slogans), emphasis cues, analogies, and repetition.

Speech Development:

• Use at least three different types of supporting materials (i.e., examples, testimony, statistics, explanation, definition).
• Use at least three different types of audience-centered language techniques (see chapter 10) (i.e., storytelling, listener self-interest, humor, involvement, movement, reality, novelty).
• Cite at least four sources in your speech.