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Informative speeches seek to share information, explanations, or even ideas with an audience. Unlike persuasive speeches, which seek to make an argument and therefore confirm or alter an audience’s beliefs or actions, informative speeches are meant to give audience members knowledge they might not have possessed before the speech. Informative speeches can be about a wide range of topics—objects, individuals or groups, events, processes, and ideas. In this section, we take a closer look at each of these types of informative speeches.