Northern Virginia Community College Cybersecurity Explanatory Speech
Subject
Computer Science
School
Northern Virginia Community College
Question Description
The purpose of your explanatory speech is teach your audience something about a topic that is related to your major or intended career. In this speech, you are not trying to change your audience’s attitudes, actions, or beliefs— you will do that in your group persuasive speech a little bit later this semester as part of the Deliberative Dialogue assignment. For this speech, you should teach your audience something that is a specialized concept, about a key historic figure, or an important historic development related to your major or intended career. For example, an agronomist might talk about how Norman Borlaugh developed hybrids of wheat and rice that would later keep entire nations from dying of starvation, a biologist might explain how unchecked cell growth leads to cancer, a communication student might teach about how the Theory of Reasoned Action explains how people make decisions, a musician might explain the difference between analog and digital music recordings, a pre-med student might teach the audience how to do CPR, and a computer scientist might explain how computer security algorithms work and teach the audience how to create more secure passwords. All of these speeches would describe, or teach, complexities of their respective topics without trying to convince the audience to accept a certain position on the topic.