Devotional Speech Evaluation

I have learned to project my voice better, while maintaining a firm position. These things have help me focus more on giving the speech than worrying about myself. I still need to work on calming myself down during my speech. I will be able to do this by collecting my thoughts beforehand and remind myself that I know my topic. I am giving the speech to let people know what I know about my topic.

Public speaking used to be a daunting task that I would try to avoid as often as possible, often I would be the last to present a project and would refrain myself from having to read outloud. When I would speak my head would fill with thoughts of how other were perceiving me and how easy it would be to mess up. With this nervous mentality my speaking was stuttered and confusing.

During the speech, I was also a good speaker in many ways. I had a good voice projection, my hand moment was consistent, I was always facing the audience and held eye contact, and had facial expressions to emphasize the importance of a topic. Right off the bat when I was explaining my citation saying According to the U.S Census Bureau “there are alone 5.7% Asian’s in the United States,” I was pointing my hands to make sure everyone was paying attention to the numbers. Another thing I did well during the speech was, that I kept eye contact with everyone during the speech

Claudia Stepanovich gave me a message through power point that I completely agree with and that is that public speaking is not a skill you are born with; it is something that you have to learn and get better at. This message spoke to me, because I am extremely nervous about public speaking and I always avoid it when I can; when I can’t avoid it I always get nervous and start to stutter and forget information.

This is the first time I presented a speech in front of a class. Honestly, it’s really fun and scary at the same time because I am not used to people having their eyes on me. Anyway, I gave a speech on how to build a skateboard because a lot of people skate in the U.S., especially in California. I feel like skateboarding is a part of American culture so it’s a good topic to work on.

Let me start by saying I was nervous, which in itself caught me by surprise. I consider myself a fairly confident person; I’ve always experienced butterflies prior to any public presentation but this was more than that. The nervousness led to other issues such as the vocal characteristics of my presentation. For instance, I stumbled on my words during the introduction, tongue-tied as it were. I saw the words in front of me but couldn’t seem to verbalize them. I stopped, re-grouped and moved forward. I continued with a number of vocalized pauses which prove not only

Well, the speech was really fun to prepare for it, even though the grade is not what I expected. It pretty awesome too when giving the speech because I can see the audiences inner desire. And their laugh and some smile, it shows it all. I got their attention when I first open up the slide because that was the moment when our generation mostly looking for. And that was love, but that not what they expected. I was laughing inside because of that. While giving the speech, I notice I made too many mistakes and know what my weakness, strength is. I can see my strength in organizing my speech with the step of Monroe’s Motivated Sequence because of that my speech went a lot smoother. In addition to that, I was able to get my points across the audience. The thesis of my topic was easily understood by the audience because my earlier slide about finding love caught their attention. That was brilliant, but I can see that my transition is not smooth on every slide. And that is my weakness I have to work on. It's still not as bad as my communication because I know that I’m quadruple-lingual. That make it really hard for me to speaking

I always try to prepare myself and practice a lot before speeches or presentations. I want to be ready, and I want to know that I can give this speech, and do it well. I try to get to a point in which I will know I can get a good grade, and I can do my speech smoothly. I will practice in front of my siblings, parents, or by myself, and I’ll feel totally prepared. Then all of a sudden, when the time comes to finally

Talking as much as I can will really set a goal to get over post-nervousness and self anxiety for when you have to present to large areas of people. I am very good with listening to others opinions on how I can make a difference from the last. I am always coming up with ideas on how to make something new while using the background knowledge I have from my earlier research studies on this topic.

The key to doing good on my last speech, however, will come down to the recollection of my own material. Also, I will have to try and expand upon my vocal range as it seems like I still stick with one average tone.

This really helped me to find my confidence and taught me how to get rid of the nerves that comes with public speaking. There is always room to improve and through the speech classes I took throughout high school I feel like I improved in my speaking skills. One of my strengths is being good at preparation. Preparation is a very important factor in making a good speech. Knowing your audience, your topic, and knowing how to organize a speech properly is something I find to be a strength. Another strength of mine that I previously stated is knowing how to get through any nerves that I have. My weaknesses of public speaking include my newly developed stutter, talking too fast, and not speaking super clearly. With speeches I am much better at putting the speech together rather than actually giving

Throughout life we express ourselves through words. The way we present ourselves through speech says a lot about our character. The way one speaks to others can jeopardize the amount of respect and trust others have for them. From the way one pronounces a word to their posture can affect the way an audience interprets what is being said. Personally, I am not confident with my speaking skills at this point. I would like my audience to fully comprehend the concepts or facts that I would present to them. In order to do so I must improve my speaking skills I believe that a problem most people, including myself, have when giving speeches is facing an audience. Just looking out to an audience of a mere ten

I may have been slightly nervous prior to the speech day, but when the time came and I was introduced I felt more prepared than ever. Before I was going to give the speech I made sure that I set specific improving goals for myself to accomplish. I wanted to improve my speed by slowing it down,

For as long as I can remember, public speaking has always been one of my greatest weaknesses. Whether it’s a simple in-class presentation or a speech in front of an auditorium filled with people, I can barely get my words out from the anxiety and

First off, how I felt on the day of our first speech. I’m not going to say that I was 100% confident in myself and not nervous at all, because that’s simply not true, but all in all I felt pretty good and I wasn’t really that nervous. Since I’m used to speaking in front of people, I wasn’t nervous about talking in front of my peers but forgetting what I’m talking about in my speech since I’m used to memorizing and not just speaking out in front of people. The only thing I could think of which I could do to make me less nervous than what I was on the day of my speech would be to go practice more in front of people who aren’t my friends. Otherwise, I believe I used my skill of performing in theatre and transposed it into my speech so I wouldn’t be nervous upon giving my speech. In speaking of skills, the next topic I’d like to address is some skills which I used well/not so well.