Lesson 6: Informative Speeches
Objectives
When you have successfully completed this lesson, you will be able to
- define the four types of informative speeches: definition speeches, description speeches, demonstration and process speeches, and social ritual speeches
- deliver an oral report on a historical investigation that
- uses exposition, narration, description, and/or persuasion to support the thesis
- analyzes several historical records of a single event, examining each perspective on the event
- describes similarities and differences between research sources, using information derived from primary and secondary sources to support your presentation
- includes information on all relevant perspectives and considers the validity (accuracy and truthfulness) and reliability (consistency) of sources
- deliver a multimedia presentation that
- combines text, images, and sound by incorporating information from a wide range of media, including films, newspapers, magazines, CD-ROMs, online information, television, videos, and electronic media-generated images
- selects an appropriate medium for each element of the presentation
- uses the selected media skillfully, and is edited appropriately and monitored for quality
- tests the audience’s response and revises the presentation accordingly