Analyzing An Advocacy Speech Analysis

I am Finn Walter I am attending Estrella Foothills High school. It is my first year attending the school. I am writing to you about your campaign. I have looked through some of your interviews and I have looked at one of your campaign posters. And I have some suggestion that might help reach out to younger voters.

Public speaking is something that I enjoy. Being able to talk to many people at once and having them get to know a part of me is something I find interesting. With me enjoying speaking to people I found myself running for the Associated Student Body (ASB) president my senior year in high school, I was the secretary previous year. Knowing that with the position of being the president of the school I knew it came with having to be very social not only with my fellow ASB team but with the entire school! However, that was the least of my problems. I knew that in order for me to run for the position having a speech to present to the former ASB president and administration of the school was mandatory. Writing speeches have never been my cup of tea. I have always winged it, mixing my personality into the core of the message I was trying to deliver seemed to always work for me. I worked on the main points I was going to present, had a few lines that I knew I was going to follow but the rest I knew would come to me when the day came. It was the day for everyone running for office to have their presentation ready. Because I was running for the highest office that was available everyone who applied for a lower/ different position went first. Starting from the lowest office of being the freshman representation moving all the way up to the president. Because I was one of the last to present I had an advantage of

It is inappropriate to use emotional appeals when dealing with speeches involving facts that may or may not be true. For example, you wouldn't want to use an emotional appeal on an accused criminal. It would be unethical to convey feelings based on a statement that may not be true and you wouldn't want to let feelings cloud their judgement, or true facts of the matter. If you were trying to persuade someone that a person was not guilty of a crime, you wouldn't want to make a statement like "You have always liked him, so you should know that he isn't that kind of guy and didn't do that". Another example is if you were trying to persuade someone a certain sports team was going to win or lose the next game.You should support your prediction with facts. Controversies are major areas where you shouldn't use emotional appeal because it is unethical.You don't want to use feelings to convince someone the topic is or isn't true. You should never want to speak with bias on a topic, and you don't want your audience to be biased

I always stress myself out before, and during these experiences. I'd love to say that having my first oral-only presentation got me over my fear of public speaking. But it didn't. Today, though, I can say that I remember the days leading up to the presentation much better than I can remember actually presenting. While this experience didn't change my fears, it did change the way I will go into future presentations or public speaking requirements. Maybe the nerves going into something like this will die down slightly if I think about how short the thing I'm dreading will actually be. I think that this presentation experience sort of sums up my first semester of high school. I came into this school terrified. Even though there have been struggles in the time I have been here, they haven't been nearly as bad as I initially

One of the problems I faced was after many hours of practicing, I still found my self still having a memorization issue. Due to that reason, my speech was a little here and there. However, I believe after my speech the audience had a fundamental knowledge of my topic.

In this speech, i spoke about a topic that i was apathetic towards though, surprisingly i still came across very extemporaneous and passionate. This is because my strong suits are my speaking tone and/or style and my non-verbal communication skills. I excelled in eye contact and being comfortable in front of the audience. I would like to say this may be a false sense of accomplishment though, since I've been with this class an entire semester, I've naturally grown comfortable around them. This would allow anyone, including myself, to be more confident and at home while speaking.

I procrastinated a lot on my shield speech, and I went first, so I didn't have as much time to prepare as I did with my informative speech. I prepared early for this speech and performed in the middle of our class. In this speech, I was better at planning what I had to say because I wrote out a paper beforehand, and that helped.

This public speaking course has taught me alot by helping me to become a better person and by growing me into something I never thought I could be.Speaking out loud always made me nervous, even when I was just reading a sentence from a book to some of my closest friends. Even though we are not even halfway through the school year, I have learned and improved so much. One of the first things this class had taught me was all about body language and how to present yourself to make an impression. Little things that we do can make us seem small, such as slouching, crossing our arms and legs, and looking at the ground, while others make us appear big, for instance, stretching, sitting up straight, and taking up alot space. Properly presenting yourself is important and can make a big difference in your life, whether it is for a job interview, meeting new people, or speaking in front of your peers. I have also learned to control and overcome my nervous habits, for example, playing with my hair, rocking back and forth, and moving my hands. Habits like these show the audience that you are nervous and it may turn their attention away from your speech and onto your actions. The audience-speaker relationship was also a great thing to learn. This relationship shows cause and effect, for example, when you lose the attention of your audience you may begin to second guess yourself leaving you to becoming nervous and self conscious. You then may start to panic and your speech may become a

When the presentation ended, I seemed more relieved than I thought I would be (in the same way I was more nervous). I suppose there's more truth than I imagined to my third point. Taking on different characters is the easiest form of protection. Being in speech and musicals, I assumed standing up front wouldn't be as nerve-wracking as it is described to be. Friends even told me, "This is probably easy for you, but for me…" Therefore, when I was overrun with nerves, it surprised me. Talking about myself is harder than showing the life of someone

Years ago after World War 1 a black man created a speech the reached out to millions of people. This speech was written to give the blacks equal freedom as the whites, even though the war was supposed to do that, he uses the civil war to reach out to many people. The speech talks about how the blacks may not be forced to pick cotton but they were still slaves because they did not have the same rights as whites. The speech mentions the March For Jobs, blacks had to fight just to get jobs because no one would work them unless it was slave work. This speech is so powerful because it gave many people the freedom that we have today.

After watching both of my speeches I recognized a few things that I definitely improved on between the two. I also noticed some areas that I still need to improve on. The biggest improvement was eye contact with the audience. While giving my first speech, I would look anywhere but where I needed to-- the audience.

The first speech was the Most Embarrassing Moment speech. I honestly was still so nervous to record this even though I would just be looking at my computer screen. It felt kind of weird, almost as if I was video chatting with myself. After I memorized my speech and sent in my recording, I immediately assumed that I failed because the professor would think that I was too close to the screen or I was too loud or I moved my head around a lot. Then I ended up getting an A on it. Everything I thought that I did wrong was either irrelevant or did not distract from my presentation as a whole. Since I only missed one point, I can say that what I did well was all the

I have changed as a speaker in various ways over this past semester. I have gotten more comfortable with myself as a speaker. I learned instead of being scared and nervous to talk in front of my classmates, to just put my self in a place where I feel comfortable. For example when I am speaking in front of the class, I imagine myself standing in my living room just talking to my dad. Another thing that helped me get through my speech is choosing a topic that I know a lot about, this helped my feel more comfortable about what I was talking about. This helps build credibility. I realized that everyone is going to have a strong opinion about certain topics but if you can provide valid information and have good arguing point in a speech then it could really change peoples minds about a certain topic. After I completed my first speech I really understood what it took to be a good speaker, especially after getting feed back from my classmates. This helped improve confidence and all other aspects of me speaking in front of a crowd.

As an introvert speaking in front of teachers and classmates has always been a challenge. Hearing those words “We will present next class” fills my body with terror. No matter how well I know my topic I mentally freak out. Scared that I will mess up and end up with a bad grade. Terrified that students with make fun of me. Sometimes I’m too nervous to answer even a simple question. It’s a never-ending process. As my last week of high school approached I was relieved that most of the projects and presentations were over. However, I still had one final speech. My speech for Spanish class at speech festival.

Conclusion goal: To tell my fellow students that practicing public speaking is fun with the help of the generic guidelines above, although full of apprehension.