Introduction
People use different types of speeches to achieve their communicative goals. Speeches are essential in managing the audience’s mood, their attitude toward the presented topic, and their subsequent reactions. Good speech builds support and trust, which can be used to develop future interactions with the audience. Informative and persuasive speech types, more than others, are aids in this endeavor.
Discussion
Informative speeches are monologues in which the respondent conveys information about events, phenomena, or facts to the audience. Such speeches are characterized by fullness, breadth of topics, and depth of knowledge transfer. In addition, they are often accompanied by visual and interactive activities that allow them to disclose the topic better and convey it to the audience. Informative speeches are found everywhere: holding a lecture or seminar is an example of such a speech. The audience receives new information from the lecturer, after which they can reproduce it at least partially.
Persuasive speech supplements informative speech, but its purpose is to convince the audience of one’s point of view. For example, a candidate’s speech for a diploma, master’s, or doctoral degree is an example of persuasive speech. First, the respondent provides information about the phenomenon; second, he or she convinces the committee of its validity and legitimacy. Persuasive speeches are more expressive and interactive because, in this way, the speaker can communicate directly with the panel: to lead to reflection, force a change of viewpoint, to analyze.
Conclusion
Thus, informative and persuasive speeches are important tools for building potential interactions with the audience. Informative speech achieves this goal by conveying information that is known to be reliable and valuable to listeners, which can then be reproduced and implemented in their activities. Persuasive speech achieves this through a unique format of conducting – interactive contacts and pushing the audience to analyze the information independently.