Informative Speeches – October 11 (Informative speeches are worth 225 points total. This includes the outline, annotated bibliography, and notecards.) You will deliver a 5- to 7-minute informative...

I am writing a speech and have chosen the topic REM sleep. my first main pint will be a brief history of REM sleep, my second will be the relationship that REM sleep has with dreaming, and lastly the relationship REM sleep has with learning.


Informative Speeches – October 11 (Informative speeches are worth 225 points total. This includes the outline, annotated bibliography, and notecards.) You will deliver a 5- to 7-minute informative speech on a topic of your choosing, but it must be submitted for approval before you begin researching it. You will submit a printed copy of your outline, annotated bibliography, and notecards on your speech delivery day. Checklist: 1. Choose a topic (I have chosen REM sleep) and submit it for approval (via the Blackboard assignment) by 9/24. Your topic should be something you find interesting and would enjoy researching but also something your audience will find interesting and useful (remember significance). If you don’t see how it can be significant to the audience, choose another topic. If you do not submit a topic for approval and show up to deliver a speech topic that was never approved, you will receive a 0% grade. 2. Use a minimum of three credible (non-biased, expert) sources. If it is listed on your bibliography, it must be referenced at least once in the speech. 3. Be able to tell me which organizational structure works for your topic and employ it to organize/outline your speech. (You will submit a rough draft outline—80% complete—on Oct. 4, so that I can provide feedback before you finalize it.) Pages 137-139 of your text offer a good sample outline for formatting purposes. 4. Type up your finalized outline and annotated bibliography and turn it in (printed copy) on your assigned speech day. (Annotations are short descriptions [one to three sentences] of what the source provides for your speech.) 5. Create legible notecards with keywords and phrases (not complete sentences to read verbatim). 6. Remember to practice your speech, timing yourself so you know if you need to edit down or add information for the time requirement of 5 to 7 minutes. If your speech is excessively long or painfully under the time limit, you will lose significant points. Speeches will be presented October 11. If you miss class, make-up speeches will be presented in the following class period—or you will receive 0%. Reminders: · Stay neutral. An informative speech teaches new information with no bias. It is not persuasive. There is no call to action. You are not advocating a specific point of view. · Tell us something we don’t already know. If you are telling us info we already know, it’s not informative. · Avoid information overload or data dumping (which isn’t interesting). Remember the importance of short narratives (story telling) to make information memorable. (See page 246 of your textbook). Statistics/numbers are needed for credible evidence, but they can be made interesting with a human-interest aspect of narratives, examples, shocking info, etc.