Choose a Topic for an Informative Speech
Need a topic for a speech? Just follow these steps and in the end you will develop an informative speech topic that will surprise and inform your audience.
Steps
- Make a short list of your interests. Answer these questions: is there something you love to talk about? Do you have special skills in your personal or professional life?
- Determine the interests and needs of your audience. What do they want to learn? Better yet, what do they need to learn, especially from a speaker such as you?
- Review a short list of your interests and make a decision. Choose a topic that is also interesting to your audience. Also make sure that you can deliver a speech on the topic in an interesting way. The delivery is everything!
- Research just one new single aspect of that topic. Look for new information that surprises your listeners. Find strange tidbits on the topic, so that the audience will talk among themselves after the speech, saying, "Wow, I never knew that!"
- Demonstrate the steps, stages, pros and cons, and effects by the use of visual aids. With some topics, visual aids can significantly help your speech be something people will remember for a long time. However, visual aids can bury you. If you have a slightly boring topic, use an amusing visual aid to make the audience sit up and focus on you. If your speech is already interesting, you may not need one.
Sample Speeches
Doc:Demonstrative Speech About Cooking,Demonstrative Speech About Interviewing,Demonstrative Speech About Gardening
Tips
- Have fun looking for a topic! It's your speech, right? Do it on something you're not only interested in, but passionate about. Deliver it in a fun, unforgettable way that will have people talking for long time.
- To help you determine your interests: think about your favorite objects, products, people, animals, events, places, processes, procedures, concepts, policies or theories.
- To help you research: look for new facts, figures, stories, statistics, surveys, personal experiences, professional experiences, quotations, comparisons and contrasts.
- Relate to your audience. If you're a cook talking to dairy farmers and strawberry growers about new products, why not bring them together with a recipe for strawberry cheesecake?
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