Informative Speech – Moosehead Lake Maine

For your informative speech, you must use one of three types described in the Chapter 13 Power Point, which are: Object, Event, and Concept. **You may NOT choose a Process speech for this assignment.** For this second graded speech, emphasis will be placed on Delivery, Preparation and Appearance and Content Organization. However, you should pay attention to all five categories of public speaking on the evaluation rubric. Failure to stay within the time minimum/maximum will result is an automatic loss of one letter grade. (In real speech contexts, speakers will be asked to stop speaking when their time is up.) Topic The success of your first speech will be dependent on the quality of your topic and the information presented. The following are examples of topics used in the past. Please do not choose one of them: Object (includes person, place, thing): Hawaii. NH White Mountains. NFL football helmet. LL Bean boot. Instagram. Event: Pope Francis visits the US. The Olympics. The Super Bowl. Concept: Bitcoin currency. Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Capitalism. Free speech. Remember: This is NOT a persuasive speech and I would encourage you to avoid topics that are controversial to remain objective in your delivery. If you use any information from a credible source (book, website, etc.), please give verbal attribution to those sources in your speech (e.g. “According to X,” or “X states”). You must also list your references in the comments section when you submit your informative speech. Please avoid sources that lack credibility such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and websites.