Informative Speech Criteria
The purpose of your informative speech is to inform, instruct, educate, brief, and explain concepts or ideas to an audience; not to persuade.
Length: 4-6 minutes/ Time your speech out before you give it to make sure you fall within the time limits. 5 Points will be taken off every 30 seconds you are under 4 minutes or over 6 minutes.
Dress: Business Casual (If you are not dressed for your speech points will be taken off.)
Business casual (Gentlemen: Slacks and collar shirt; Ladies: Slacks and nice blouse, dress or blouse and skirt)
Note Cards: Only 5 note cards (3X5) allowed points in bullet format Optional
References: APA Format 5 sources must have a variety of sources points will be taken off if you do
not have a minimum of 5 sources.
(Variety meaning e-books, journals, interviews, website etc.)
Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
Do not use anything that has wiki in it as a source or anything that the regular person can change.
When citing a reference in your speech say the reference don’t just state facts or statistics without a reference.
PowerPoint Presentation required
You will have a PowerPoint to show as a visual aid for your Informative Presentation
You can use a PowerPoint, Prezi, Google Slides to present your presentation
PowerPoint must have a minimum of 3 slides with text in bullet format
Pictures need to be included in PowerPoint
You DO NOT have to show your PowerPoint while recording your speech (I will pull up the PowerPoint on my end once submitted and watch your speech video as I go through your PowerPoint when grading
Informative Speech due on March 1, 2021.
If you do not give your speech you will receive a ZERO.
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