COMM 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Thesis Statement

• School: CSULB
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 130
• Professor: A Kolokotrones

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Informative speaking: goals of informative speaking (3) i. ii. Also provides new information or helps the audience view and issue in a different way: persuasive speaking. Persuade their audiences by providing more info i: communicating new and unfamiliar information, extending what the audience already knows, we are constantly exposed to new and unfamiliar info ii. Public speakers inform by communicating information that extends what an audience already knows about some topic or issue i: updating old information, what we think we know and what we believe about many topics may be outdated. Public speakers can bring more perspective to a topic by reinterpreting or ii. updating what an audience already knows or believes: types of informative speeches (4, briefings (reports) i. i. ii. i. i. ii. An instructional presentation that typically provides new or additional information about a subject (straightforward)