Speech Topics: How to Choose a Topic for an Informative Speech

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Just follow these steps, and in the end you have developed an informative speech topic that will surprise and inform your audience.

Steps:

1. Make a short list of your interests. Answer these questions: Is there something you love to talk about? Do you have developed special skills in your personal or professional life?

2. Determine the interests and needs of your audience. What do they want to learn?

3. Review the short list of your interests and make a decision. Choose the topic that is also interesting to your audience.

4. Research just one new single aspect of that topic. Look for new information that surprises your listeners.

5. Demonstrate the steps, stages, pros and cons, and effects by the use of visual aids.

Tips:

* To help you determining your interests: think about your favorite objects, products, people, animals, events, places, processes, procedures, concepts, policies or theories.

* To help you researching: look for new facts, figures, stories, statistics, surveys, personal experiences, professional experiences, quotations, comparisons and contrasts.


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List of Informative Speech Topics

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