Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for your group to collectively write a rough draft for your informative speech.

Guidelines:

Speech length - (12 minutes per group = 1,500 word document @ 125 words per minute average speaking time; approximately 2 minutes of speaking per member)

Decide who is writing each part of the speech using the guidelines below:

• Introduction (includes attention getting statement, orienting material, thesis statement and preview of main points - these should all relate to the country your group chose and how to communicate effectively with members of this culture)
• Main Point #1 + supporting evidence (cited orally) - language
• Main Point #2 + supporting evidence (cited orally) - nonverbal
• Main Point #3 + supporting evidence (cited orally) - listening
• Main Point #4 + supporting evidence (cited orally) - cultural value orientations (individualist vs collectivist, etc)
• Conclusion (includes summary and final thoughts)
• Works Cited page

1.  The country that our group picked for our informative speech is Italy.
2. Some facts that we think our group might already know about Italy is that it is in Europe with its capital being Rome. They are known for Italian food like pizza and spaghetti.
3. If people in the class did ever decide to visit Italy and wanted to communicate effectively there, they would probably need to learn the Italian language, understand that people who live there communicate a lot with gestures and have a louder tone, and that they are direct when expressing their ideas.

4. Sources that are important to show the class that we are speakers who understand this topic would be credible sources online like websites that have accurate information on how Italians speak. A way to determine if the information is accurate is to see if it has any bias by seeing if the information is well explained. Citing the sources can help to make sure the class knows where we got the information from.

• how they use language
• how they use nonverbal cues
• their listening styles or behaviors
• their cultural dimensions (ex: individualist, collectivist, etc)

Introduction (includes attention getting statement, orienting material, thesis statement and preview of main points - these should all relate to the country your group chose and how to communicate effectively with members of this culture)