Informative Presentations Flashcards
(24 cards)
- To prepare an informative presentation
1- What is your goal?
2- What is your purpose?
1- What is your goal?
a- increase what listeners know
b- help the audience learn useful information ( which they choose to use or not)
c- clarify complex issues
d- demonstrate something useful
e- show how things relate in space
f- arouse interest in topics that seem boring
2- What is your purpose?
- what you want your audience to know or do as a result of your presentation.
- Audience will understand more when they know exactly what the speaker wants them to learn/ understand:
a- define words, objects, or concepts.
b- describe objects, people, or issues
c- distinguish between different things
d- compare and/or contrast items.
- Immediate Behavioral Purposes:
- the actions expected from an audience during and immediately after a presentation
- In order to effectively present information to an audience:
1- creating information hunger:
2- demonstrating information relevance
3- reveling extrinsic motivation
4- designing informative content
5- avoiding information overload
6- organizing content
1) Creating information hunger
information hunger: the audiences’ need for the information contained in the presentation
rhetorical questions: questions asked for effect, with no answer expected
2) Demonstrating information relevance:
- information relevance:
the importance, novelty, and usefulness of the information to the audience
3) Revealing extrinsic motivation:
- extrinsic motivation:
a method of making information relevant by providing the audience with reasons outside the presentation itself for listening to the content of the presentation
Extrinsic vs Instrinsic
- Extrinsic: external rewards or to avoid punishments
- Intrinsic: for its own sake or personal rewards
4) Designing informative content:
- informative content: main points & subpoints, illustrations, and examples used to clarify and inform.
4) a- audiences tend to remember:
- they tend to remember and comprehend generalizations and main ideas better than details & specific facts.
b- simple words & concrete ideas:
- simple words and concrete ideas are significantly easier to retain than more complex materials.
c- Humor
- Humor can make a presentation more interesting, but it does not seem to help in retaining information
d- early remarks
- early remarks about how the presentation will meet the audience’s needs can create anticipation and increase the chance for listening and understanding.
e- calling for overt audience
- calling for overt audience response, or actual behavior, increases comprehension more than repetition does
5) Avoiding Information Overload:
- information overload: providing much more information than the audience can absorb in amount, complexity, or both.
5) Organizing content:
a- tell an audience what you are going to tell them, then tell them what you told them.
b- use transitions & sign posts to increase understanding.
c- tell your audience which points are most important
d- repeat important points for better understanding.
1) Skills for Informative Speaking:
1) defining
2) describing
3) explaining
4) narrating
5) demonstrating
1) defining:
- defining can be achieved by:
a) comparison: showing similarity between something well known and another that is les known
b) contrast: clarifies by showing differences
c) synonym: defines by using a word close or similar in meaning to the one you are trying to define.
d) antonym: defines the idea by opposition
2) describing:
a- imagery: use of words that appeal to the senses, that create pictures in the mind.
b- metaphor: figure of speech that likens one thing to another
3) explaining:
- explaining a means of idea development that simplifies or clarifies an idea while arousing audience interest.
4) narrating:
- oral presentation and interpretation of a story. ( description of a story or event, includes dramatic reading)
5) demonstrating:
- showing the audience what you are explaining.
