How to Write an Informative Essay?

Morgan Naylor
Oral com 103
10/19/11
Chapter 2 Summary
Chapter 2 was all based on perception and what makes ups perception. The perception between roommates, co workers, relationship partners, parents, children, teachers, and students. Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli. Through the perceptual process, we gain information about properties and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival. Perception not only creates our experience of the world around us; it allows us to act within our environment. Perception includes the five senses; touch, sight, taste smell and taste. It also includes what is known as proprioception, a set of senses involving the ability to detect changes in body positions and movements. It also involves the cognitive processes required to process information, such as recognizing the face of a friend or detecting a familiar scent. There are 3 keys key parts of perception. One is making a selection, which simply mean the limitations in our ability to assimilate and interpret information to prevent us from “talking it all in” and so we must select certain messages or stimuli over others. There are 3 different process, Selective exposure, selective attention, and selective retention. The second is once we have the information selected we have to organize the information, by placing it into categories in order to make since of it. Organization is the process by which we take the stimuli and make sense of it so it is meaningful to us. The third is interpretation, after selected and organized the final step in perception is interpretation. Interpretation is the process of making sense of perceptions.

Morgan Naylor
Oral com 103
10/19/11
Chapter 7 Summary
Research is the back ground of what you need to support a certain point. In order for researchers information to be solid it has to be credible. When beginning research assessing you personal knowledge and skills is essentials. There are several different resources you can use such as online resources and books, encyclopedia’s dictionaries, newspapers, magazines journal article, and government documents. When using sources such as online sources we must use weenie evaluation criteria and question accuracy, authority, objectivity, coverage and currency. Like a paper there has to be a thesis statement, a body with main points, and a conclusion. The body is made up of the supporting materials reinforce the main point of your speech and makes you a more credible speaker. One of the most important things about supporting facts is having verifiable information. Your main point, knowledge of your subject, and definitions are all clarification facts. Opinion is different from facts because eat cannot be varied because it is how you or someone else feels. The presentation of information in numerical for is statistical support. Statistic change easily so it’s important to anywise the data that going to be presented. Five commonly used support tactics, is one Brief or short examples such as illustrations. The second, extended examples, that creates long lasting images. The third is Narrative stories that link to the information being presented. Hypothetical examples such as fictional stories to get you point across; the last is personal examples, your own personal experience that pull you and the listener closer together. One of the most important things about research we must remember is citing our work. If we do not cite the information, we are stating it as if it were our own which is wrong so quotations are used whenever quoting someone or something that isn’t our own.
Morgan Naylor
Oral com 103
10/19/11
Chapter 10 Summary
There are 3 main categories of an informative speech. Speeches of description, which are pictures events, places, situations, objects, and concepts. Another speech is a Speech of explanations that are speeches of princiiples, theories, ideas, and beliefs. And the last is speeches of demonstration n which about process and describing changes that lead to results. There are often misconceptions between informative and persuasive speeches. The main purpose behind an informative speech is to deliver the information or message clearly to the audience. An informative speaker is responsible for researching on the topic provided and presents a detailed presentation in a very clear and concise manner. A persuasive speech is a speech aimed at influencing values, ideas, beliefs and attitudes of the audience. Practically, a persuasive speech is used to convince people to come to your speech, a different idea, attitude and belief, react to something, consider doing things they were previously unwilling to do. The object of an informative speaker is to be accurate objective, clear meaningful, and memorable. To inform you have to know the information you’re talking about so there has to be thorough search of information so you can clearly execute your speech. Another important fact knows your audience if you’re talking to a group of 3rd graders you would want to use words that they won’t know until high school, because they would not understand. The point of an informative to speech is to have some one walk away from your speech knowing something they didn’t know before. When preparing the informative speech makes sure the choices of you speech is based on a reasonable topic.