SPC-1608 - Zimmerman

An informative speech provides factual, unbiased information on a topic. Your goal is to educate the audience, not to persuade. Informative speech topics can be broadly categorized into four types:

• Objects - anything visible, tangible, or stable in form
  • can be a thing, a place, or a person
• Processes - a systematic series of actions that leads to a result or product, including:
  • explaining steps or instructions so the audience will understand how the process works 
  • explaining steps or instructions so the audience will be able to perform the process
• Events - anything that happens or is regarded as happening 
  • can be a common event such as playing a sport or a specific event such as WWII
• Concepts - a belief, theory, idea, principle, or other abstract idea

Using outside research will add credibility to you and your speech as well as provide the audience with guidance on where to seek further, more in-depth information on the topic.