Explanation

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DOCTORS ESSENTIALLY give explanatory speeches to their patients, describing the causes of a medical condition and how it may be treated. Image Source/Getty Images

Explanatory presentations delve into more complexity than the other approaches to conveying information or creating awareness. Explanatory speeches answer such questions as “Why?” or “What does that mean?” To make your points in an explanatory speech, you must provide reasons or causes and show relationships among things; you must use interpretation and analysis. To this end, you should keep three main goals in mind: clarifying concepts, explaining the “big picture,” and challenging intuition.