Lackawanna COM125 2022 February Module 6 Assignment Latest

COM125 Effective Speaking

Module 6 Assignment  

Informative Voiceover PowerPoint

When merely presenting information, you may or may not have an agenda.  But you ARE trying to make the audience aware of something.  You ARE promoting something...understanding.  You ARE creating a need...to know.  So it's still advertising, just a milder form.

You've already demonstrated something to us.  This was promotion...you promoted how cool it is to make taco dip, or mac-cheese, or save lives.

Informational speeches can show, clarify, and (believe it or not) inform.

They need to be organized.  Here are some ways to do that:

            Cause and effect

            Chronologically

            Numerically

            Problem/Solution

            Spatial

            Topical (subject)

GIVING AN INFORMATIONAL SPEECH

Explain something the audience is unfamiliar with and will find interesting. What's in it for them?  What reward will they get if they listed to you?

Excite the audience with an attention getter (question, story, strong statement, etc)

Identify your central theme

Concentrate on why the audience may be interested in what you are saying.

Give information and support it with examples.

Summarize your messages because if they're too long you'll lose your audience.

Research so you sound credible. CITE YOUR SOURCES, ex.  "Dr. Ahman Farsi the chair of the environmental science department of the University of Delaware, says litter is bad".

Be familiar with your speech outline and how to use your visual aids so you sound and look poised. This would be solved by PRACTICING.

Refer to the beginning of your speech and the important points made during your closing.

Rules for the speech

This speech will be an "Informative Voiceover Powerpoint." You'll make a powerpoint about your speech, and all your points.  Then you'll RECORD your voice into the powerpoint. Here's a video on how to do that: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/record-a-slide-show-with-narration-and-slide-timings-0b9502c6-5f6c-40ae-b1e7-e47d8741161c (Links to an external site.)

Speech runs 5-7 minutes. Timing is pretty important here!

Keep it interesting!!!

Cite all sources.  Make sure you turn in your bibliography at the end of the PowerPoint. I want most of them to be peer reviewed academic journals, or at least publications on the subject.

Speeches are due Sunday at 11:59pm

This will be a BIG file so instead of attempting YouTube or just uploading it to the discussion thread, it will be easier to submit it to Google Drive.  We all have an account there, so if you just click on “Share” once it’s uploaded, they’ll give you a URL that you can post in the discussion thread.