This assignment aims to enhance your public speaking skills while delivering an informative speech on a topic of their choice. By utilizing PowerPoint as a presentation aid, you will learn to effectively organize information, engage the audience, and deliver a compelling presentation.
Topic Selection:
- Choose a topic you are passionate about and that is informative.
- Ensure that your topic is suitable for an informative speech. It should aim to educate or inform the audience about a specific subject.
- You will need at least 5 sources for your topic.
- One of your resources must be a peer-reviewed source.
- The other 4 sources may come from newspapers, magazines, or online sources
- You must use oral citations in your speech.
- Introduction:
- Grab the audience’s attention with a compelling opening statement or anecdote related to your topic.
- Clearly state the purpose of your speech and provide an overview of what you will be discussing.
- Body:
- Organize your main points logically.
- Use subheadings to break down complex information.
- Support your points with evidence, examples, statistics, or visual aids.
- Ensure smooth transitions between different sections of your speech.
- Conclusion:
- Summarize the key points covered in your speech.
- End with a strong closing statement that reinforces the significance of your topic.
- Create a PowerPoint presentation to accompany your speech.
- Design slides that are visually appealing and easy to read.
- Avoid cluttered slides with too much text.
- Include a title slide, content slides, a concluding slide, and a slide for your references.
- You must use at least two (2)types of visual aids:
- Pictures (photographs or drawings)
- Diagrams
- Video or audio recording (no more than 1 minute long)
- Charts
- Graphs
- Tables
- Decision tree
- Your speech must be 7 to 9 minutes long.
- You must also be visible along with your PowerPoint.
- You need to make eye contact with the camera – this is not a speech where you read from your notes!
Professor Karen Sichler 