Week 11 — Informative Speaking

Why this matters

A pharmacy technician explaining how a new prescription label works and a museum guide describing how a mural was painted both have to teach without taking a side, because listeners who feel steered stop learning.

In plain language

This week you give the term's first big speech: an informative speech (a speech that teaches an audience something without taking a side). You learn three quick tests that tell you whether your purpose teaches or quietly argues. You learn to sort a speech by what it is about and pick a shape that fits. You learn eight moves that make a speech easy to follow and hard to forget. And you learn the promise every informative speaker makes: report the evidence whole, and check every number a chatbot hands you before you say it out loud.

• Already covered: every part of a speech, from audience to outline (Weeks 2–6), words (Week 7), delivery (Week 9), and aids (Week 10).
• This week: the informative speech, its three purpose tests, subjects and patterns, eight strategies, and reporting a finding whole.
• How they connect: all of it goes into one finished speech, the first headline speech of the course.
• Where we're going next: Week 12, Persuasive Speaking & the Rhetorical Appeals.

Focus

How do you teach an audience something without taking a side, and make it stick?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• [ ] test an informative specific purpose with the three tests and fix one that argues
• [ ] sort your speech by subject and place clarity and retention strategies on real sentences
• [ ] report a finding whole with a complete oral citation, and check a chatbot's statistic at its source

To-do

Plan your week

1. Read Chapter 11 (about 45 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
2. Do the tutorial (60–90 minutes) and the practice set (about 20 minutes).
3. Do the Speech Workshop (about 90 minutes), the discussion, and the assignment.
4. Take the quiz.

This week's checkpoint: run your own specific purpose through the three tests and rehearse one main point twice.

You've got this

Ask your instructor if a step snags.

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