Informative Self-Critique As with most things in life, my speech did not go exactly as I had planned. Overall, my speech met the requirements, but I believe I could have done better. I think that it was a good idea to open my speech with a question in order to grab the audience’s attention. My introduction properly opened the speech with a summary of the main points, as well as a thesis statement. The bad thing about my introduction was that I forgot a few words in the beginning. Because of this, my thought process got off of track and I stuttered on a few sentences. My speech was not perfect, but it was effective. The main points in my speech helped to support my thesis statement. They all had facts and sources to make my speech more reliable …show more content…
It communicated new knowledge to the audience about O.C.D. In my opinion, my speech did benefit the audience. It showed them that not everyone in the world acts the same as them and that it is good to be aware of other people’s situations. The main message that I hope they received from my speech was that you never truly know everything a person is going through and you should always be respectful of others, even and especially when you don’t know their full story. The greatest strengths of my speech were how I pulled my main topics together with subtopics to provide more details and how I used nonverbal communication to keep the audience interested. With these strengths being said, there were also mistakes in my speech because after all, I am only human. If I had a chance to redo my speech, I would try to fix these mistakes. I would talk a little bit louder; I would practice in front of a family member before giving my speech to the class so that I would be less nervous and not forget so much of my speech; I would add pictures to my powerpoint or have another visual aid to make my speech more interesting and grab the audience’s attention. All of the things I would change are mainly small things. Even though my speech could have better, it was effective in my opinion, and that is the most important
I gave a speech about making a strawberry-banana smoothie. Overall, I feel as if I did a good job on this speech. It was an informative speech. Therefore, my goal was to teach people how to make a strawberry-banana smoothie. I feel like any person who saw the speech and the related demonstration would have been able to make a strawberry-banana smoothie. In addition, I feel like I kept the speech simple, so that someone could replicate the process at home without having to refer to notes or any written materials. My peer critiques agree with my self-assessment that the speech was good, overall, but highlighted an area for improvement.
My introduction was quite low. Like they always say the beginning of everything is always the hardest. Later on when I continued with my speech I started to gain my audience’s attention since I became more confidence in my self than when I first started my presentation. I had my note card with me that really helped me a lot with all my points, hence I could have forgotten everything that I had prepared on the table for the day. It helped me in reviewing all my points one by one. I used the power point method as part of the requirement for the presentation. Which also helped in supporting my speech, since it gave a better understanding on what I was talking about.
Overall, I felt that I achieved that goal of informing my audience about experiments in social psychology. Some of strengths include achieving my message, incorporating my sources into the speech, and how well practiced my introduction was. My weaknesses include eye contact, speaking too fast, and wrapping up the speech. I know that after watching myself deliver the speech, I will know what to improve and what to continue doing for my persuasive
This paper will discuss mine self-evaluation and do into detail about my first speech. My first speech takes place in front of my class and I have to tell a story of an experience that has happened to me. Telling a speech was a new experience for me and I embrace the challenge. A speech can have an impact on a person life and the audience can also relate a topic that is being presented. I will explore and go into the details of ethos, pathos and logos of my speech for my personal assessment.
In the informative speech, I didn’t many things that were admired and distracting during the speech, and I hope to improve on those distracting interrupting acts on my next speech. During the speech, I did some items that were a little distracting through the speech. As I watched my speech I noticed I had some awkward pauses, bad transitions, some um’s, and a little stuttering throughout the speech. If you look at the speech I tend to stutter which is a little distracting. Talking about the festival Diwali I talk about Rangoli and its colored pattern I stutter and forget what I am explaining. Another thing I could improve on is my transitions when hearing the speech, the transitions are a little rough and not as smooth. During the transition when I switch from talking about the celebrations to the language I say, “with all these celebrations it tends to bring many religions and languages together” doesn’t really make sense and could be spoken a little smoother. Stuttering is also a part of the speech I did during the speech which distracting. Throughout the speech, I stutter during different parts and one of those parts being when I am talking about the different traditions when eating Indian food. I say, “some of the traditions when people eat in India are well we all we eat on our hands,” which is a little annoying. During the speech, I also said um’s during the speech. When citing my source on languages I said some ums, repeating the citation from the notecard. During the speech I had a little tough time with stuttering at moments, saying some um’s, bad transitions, and some pauses in the future I tend to improve it for the next speech.
My speech started off by introducing myself to the audience, and asking how they were
In Conclusion I feel I did a good job on my informative speech. My preparation needs work, but my content and my ability to tone down the facts helped to pull everything together. I can always use more practice, but I feel this speech went better than my
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.
I think what I need to improve on is when in fear, try to calm myself down or else I will forget everything I have practice. When speaking, I should work on my articulation and tone. My tone of voice did not have a lot of emotion into it. I seem to have been a little monotone with the way I presented the speech. I had a little rise and fall, but I should work on raising my voice for important points and bring back down to facts and evidence that back up my points.
5. Considering at least two of the concepts listed above, what do you think the speaker could work on for future speeches? Please be specific and use examples from the speech to demonstrate your points. Provide specific suggestions for improvement.
Yes, I was satisfied with my speech. Especially I think that the idea of coming up with this issue is important. Also, I did more progress compare to my other speeches.
After my informative speech about Charles Darwin I can see strengths and weakness of my speech. I see more weaknesses in my speech then I do strengths. I know that with this speech I have a lot to learn. My informative speech will be a learning lesson from my strengths which is transition and opening with an impact, and my weaknesses which is confidence, use of the floor, rate of speech, and my eye contact.
My informative speech was strong in its organization, clarity, and the support and explanation of my ideas. The organization of my speech was great the whole way through. It started with my introduction, which included all the parts needed with an attention getter, it revealed the topic, established credibility, and previewed the body. The best part of my introduction I felt was my attention getter as it related to the audience and had shock value. Following my well-organized introduction, I started my body paragraph, which contained my three main points.
I went into detail how by listening to my speech, they could possibly help a family member or friend in the future. Finally, my preview of the main points did a great job of giving a roadmap into the rest of my speech. I went into each of my three main ideas and talked about what I would be examining within each of them. I made sure not to use any evidence too early or give too much away in the preview. I simply discussed what would be later covered in the coming minutes. An example, one of my points was government involvement. I previewed that I would be discussing the difference between how government at the local and national level affected access and how they differed.
First, I will be talking about the structure of my speech. When doing a speech to explain, like any other speech it’s important to have a clear and organized pattern. Essentially when creating my outline for the speech I had made sure to have a clear and engaging intro and hook, meant to clearly state my theme and then jump into the topic. Unfortunately when presenting the speech I was unable to present my introduction as I would have liked and forgot to even mention my theme. I was not very effective in my introduction but knowing so at my conclusion I was sure to clearly state my theme. However,I believe my concluding sentence could have been more clear. To improve I should in the future reinstate my topics and go over key points and leave the audience with psychological closure rather than abruptly saying “that was all, thank you”.