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To inform is to communicate knowledge. The goal of informative speaking is to increase the audience’s awareness of some phenomenon and/or deepen understanding of it by imparting knowledge.¹ Informative speeches bring new topics to light, offer new insights on subjects with which we are familiar, provide novel ways of thinking about a topic, or demonstrate how to do things. Some speeches do all of this in a single speech; others remain focused in one or another direction.