Discuss how these three principles of informative speaking can make a speech more effective and understandable: limit information, adjust complexity, and vary abstraction level

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: Of the seven principles of informative speaking, these three involve specific techniques to make speeches clearer, simpler, and more understandable. Answers will vary, but should cover the following: 1) Limit the amount of information – resist the temptation to overload listeners with too many ideas; go for depth rather than breadth, that is, narrow the focus to a few items and cover them thoroughly. 2) Adjust the level of complexity – use familiar language and keep things simple but interesting by considering audience knowledge, time restraints, purpose, subject, and support materials; simplifying a topic too much risks boring or insulting listeners, while making it too complex risks confusing or totally losing them. 3) Vary the levels of abstraction – combine high abstraction (very general information) with low abstraction (very specific information), which works better than using too much of either type.