Question

In Sarah' speech about environmental movements, she states "recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough to energy to light a 60-watt lightbulb for six hours." She is engaging in the ____________ method of informing.

Answer 1

Answer:

description

Explanation:

Informing people through description involves creating or painting a mental or verbal picture for your audience/listeners. Good descriptions when informing people during speeches should be able to answer questions that creates a sensory effect on the audience.

When Sarah states that recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60-watt light bulb for six hours, she is describing and creating a mental picture that her listeners observe which lighting a 60-watt light bulb for six hours. This was her audience can truly appreciate the benefits of recycling just a single plastic.

Answer 2

Answer:

She is engaging in the explanation method of informing.

Explanation:

The explanation as an informative method can be seen when the speaker is explaining how something works, how something is done, or what is the advantage of doing a certain thing.

This method is generally used when the speech presents something difficult to understand, or when the speaker wants to show why something should or should not be done and what are the advantages and disadvantages that this situation presents.

In the question above, we can see that Sarah is explaining the advantage of recycling plastic bottles, preventing them from polluting the oceans. She explains that the advantage of recycling is that only one plastic bottle is enough to light a 60 watt lamp for six hours.