I found this article to be very helpful because it gave different styles for delivering explanatory speeches covering difficult information. The three styles mentioned by the author were elucidating, quasi-scientific and transformative explanations. Elucidating explanations were are used to show what something is and what it is not. The author described quasi-scientific explanations as models of complex ideas similar to some scientists models of the earth or atmosphere. One example of this style that was given used echos from sound waves being used to describe how a radar works. The last style mentioned was transformative explanations which allows audiences to transform their experiences into a way to understand difficult theories or information. The discussion of each of these styles gave me some greater insight into how I could structure some of my speeches throughout the semester. I look forward to seeing these styles surface in my future speeches of technichal information.
John Dale
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