knowledge

Examples of knowledge in the following topics:

• Knowledge of the Audience About Your Topic

  • Discovering knowledgeability, the state or condition of possessing knowledge, involves careful assessment of the audience by the speaker prior to, during, and after the speech.
  • There are at least three types of knowledgeability: Prior, formative, and summative.
  • Prior knowledge is the knowledge that the audience already has about your topic.
  • Formative knowledge is the knowledge that is forming in the mind of the audience during the speech.
  • Summative knowledge is the knowledge that the audience leaves with after your speech.

• The Importance of Organization

  • Eliot makes a good point: it is difficult to maintain a healthy balance of information, knowledge, and wisdom.
  • Knowledge is the synthesis of many facts.
  • Wisdom, the most general category of all, refers to insight that is gained from knowledge.
  • Balance information, knowledge, and wisdom as though you are building a house: lay a strong foundation of information, build knowledge on top of it, and finish the house with a roof of wisdom.
  • Explain how information, knowledge, and wisdom work together in a speech

• Tailor Complexity to Your Audience

  • The main goals for an informative speech are to help explain a specific subject and to help the audience remember the knowledge later.
  • Never presume that your audience has a lot of background knowledge on your subject, but also don't assume they know nothing.
  • Because of this, you would want to tailor the complexity of the speech to match the knowledge that the audience already possesses, meaning that the speech could contain lots of technical terms with little explanation because the audience will already understand what those terms mean.
  • This audience, even if they have taken biology classes, will not possess the same expertise knowledge that professionals do.
  • Therefore, you would want to tailor the complexity of your speech to the knowledge of the students, using fewer technical terms and more general explanations.

• Your Areas of Expertise

  • Experts are people who have a thorough knowledge of something that most people do not.
  • Expertise is when someone has a wealth of knowledge in a particular field.
  • Your fluency will be in direct ratio to two important conditions: your knowledge of what you are going to say, and your being accustomed to telling what you know to an audience.
  • For the audience, you are the authority on the topic that you are speaking about, so it might help to already have authoritative knowledge.
  • A speech whose topic is related to your expert area will draw on your extensive knowledge, making it easier for you to explain the specifics of the topic to the audience.

• Informative Speeches

  • An informative speech involves a knowledgeable speaker transferring some of their knowledge to their audience.
  • An informative speech is one in which the speaker relays knowledge to an audience on a specific topic.
  • Object speeches seek to impart knowledge about this object to the audience.
  • Having a structure gives you, as the speaker, an opportunity to introduce the key points in the introduction and revisit them in the conclusion, increasing the likelihood that the audience will walk away with the key knowledge about your topic.

• The Ethics of Persuasion

  • Persuasion is unethical if it is for personal gain at the expense of others, or for personal gain without the knowledge of the audience.
  • Persuasion is widely considered unethical if it is for the purpose of personal gain at the expense of others, or for personal gain without the knowledge of the audience.

• Gender

  • All of us can and do speak the language of multiple gender cultures, and we can use this knowledge to communicate effectively.
  • When the goal is independence, on the other hand, members of this speech community are likely to communicate in ways that exhibit knowledge, refrain from personal disclosure, are abstract, are focused on instrumentality, demonstrate conversational command, are direct and assertive, and are less responsive.
  • Such strategic choices indicate that we can use our knowledge about various communication styles or options to make us successful in many different contexts.

• Maximize Understanding

  • " You can apply the knowledge to maximize understanding.
  • Compare and contrast based upon shared knowledge: When you are showing how two things are alike, create connections with what the audience already knows.
  • Different audience members may not understand one idea but may understand another that relates more directly to their prior knowledge.
  • Simply put, you'll want to learn how the audience conceptualizes the world and then use that knowledge to maximize understanding.

• What to Do with Your Knowledge

  • Use knowledge about your audience to step into their minds, create an imaginary scenario, and test your ideas.
  • In summary, use your knowledge of the audience to adapt your speech accordingly.

• Variations in Abstraction

  • If you audience has a working knowledge of something in your speech, you may not need to get into very finite, concrete detail with them.
  • Using abstraction in this instance saves you time and doesn't bore your audience with knowledge they may already know.
  • The most obvious challenge of using abstraction is assuming that your audience has a certain working knowledge and failing to describe something concretely that may have needed a specific, spelled out description.