Primary Focus: Transmission of information, knowledge, or skills.
- Speaker’s Responsibility: Tell the audience something they do not already know
- Present new information or skills
- Extend the knowledge of an audience
- Share updated information about a topic
- An informative speech must not present an argument.
- Topics of an informative speech include (with examples):
- Objects
- The difference between sea lions and elephant seals
- The rise of popularity of Stanley tumblers
- Processes
- How the hoses on a firetruck work
- How economic inflation works
- Events
- The siege of Stalingrad (1942-1943)
- The Met Gala
- Concepts
- Aristotle’s Eudaimonia
- Orthodox Judaism