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This posting briefly addresses how to keep an informative speech from being persuasive. It also recommends how to remove biases.

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This posting briefly discusses the major goals of both speech genres.

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As you compare and contrast the two genres of speeches, please use these ideas to guide you:

First of all, please note that informative speeches focus mainly on teaching the audience new and useful information or educating them with new data about an important topic. Therefore, current events are often useful topics for these speeches. The goal of these speeches is to increase your audience's overall understanding of a speech topic. Informative speeches also focus on making the audience aware of a subject by promoting an understanding and/or teaching facts ...

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