Informative Speech On The Culper Spy Ring

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The first guideline is “Don’t overestimate what the audience knows.” What this essentially means is that a speaker should never just assume that the audience knows the topic well. The audience might never have heard about the topic before, so the speaker must be sure to either elaborate or simplify the topic to make it easier to understand from the perspective of a first-time listener. The second guideline is “Relate the subject directly to the audience.” In order to give a successful speech, the speaker must keep the audience interested. Relating the subject to the audience is one clear way of doing this. For example, in my informative speech on the Culper Spy Ring, I started out by showing a picture of James Bond. The entire audience recognized the character, and was almost immediately interested simply because of the familiarity. Usage of the words “you” and “your” helps as well, as does talking about the topic in terms of the audience. The third guideline is “Don’t be too technical.” The audience will not be …show more content…
A process is defined as “a systematic series of actions that leads to a specific result or product.” Therefore, speeches about processes explain how something is done, made, or works, like how tsunamis are created, how the Empire State Building was built, or how to do basic magic tricks. That being said, there are basically two types of process speeches. One explains the process so the audience will have a better understanding of the topic, while the other helps the audience to be able to better perform the process for themselves. Clear organization is crucial to the audience’s understanding and is usually done through topical or chronological order. The speech must have visual aids as well. For example, if a speaker was giving a speech on how tsunamis are created, he might choose to show a PowerPoint that would illustrate the individual steps behind him as he

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