Final Reflection

Eye contact is an important factor as this engages the audience, keeping them focused on what you are discussing. By making eye contact you are directing your conversation at that specific person, demonstrating that you are devoting your time and are not able to be distracted as if you would by looking around.

Special Occasion: What is the occasion, the purpose of the occasion, and who is likely to be in the audience? What mood do you hope to engender with your speech?

The way you present a speech has a monumental effect on the way your audience will understand it. The tone of your voice, your body language, the words you say, and it all happens on how you feel about the subject you writing, or speaking. Your speech is centered on your point of view, your perspective of the subject you are learning about. You can feel delighted, disgust, furious, mournful, any emotion can become a part of you speech.

I can honestly say that I am glad I made the decision to return to school and finish my degree, more specifically, I am glad I changed my degree program to Mechatronics. I believe a bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics can allow me to become more marketable in a realm of sectors and industries and I can learn more about the broad spectrum of engineering. A bachelor’s in Mechatronics is a like obtaining associate’s in Electronics, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering along with an associate’s in Computer Programming. I am on my last week of Logic and Design and must say I am somewhat upset that it is only five weeks long; I would not have guessed I would like the class as much as I did. I had to complete a course project, broken into 5 sections which covered the major requirements of the class. I learned a lot from doing the project, found my weaknesses

Even though I have not received my evaluation sheet for this time, many of my previous mistakes did not seem to emerge. While watching a total of seventeen other presentations, two stuck out in my mind, including: Stock Martin who did a splendid job of knowing his material and Lauren Hoffman who had a remarkable vocabulary. Every person has their own weaknesses and strengths, but Stock and Lauren’s delivery appeared most suitable to me. After learning from my mistakes in our prior assignments, I believe my positive abilities stood out more than my negative ones. The one down side I caught myself doing repeatedly was saying the phrase “and then” while demonstrating the folds to make the paper swan. I hope this flaw is overcome by practicing over and over again. For my next speech I intend persuading my audience that God is very much alive, as long as this topic does not offend anyone. With the casualties that are occurring from school shooting, homicides, and the highest suicide rates of all time, we need God more now than ever. One of my more favorable parts about doing this speech was that we had plenty of time to work, study, and practice performing in front of one another before our actual class at Amarillo College. I really enjoyed spending time on this and I can’t wait for our next

As a speaker, I determined that my audience was the classroom and begin to shape my speech towards

Just 26,130 hours left. To many college students in my shoes, this number represents the hours they must put forth until they receive their diplomas. However, for me, this number has more significance: it represents the fleeting moments I have to academically and socially enrich myself in order to empower my community. While 26,130 hours might seem like an enormous amount of time, with the time spent on studying, sleeping, and maintaining good hygiene, this amount of time is decimated. With the remaining time, I have a choice of sustaining myself financially by working as a tutor or focusing on my interests through extracurricular activities. In most situations, I am obliged to pick the former as opposed to the latter. Although I gain money

This weeks' assignment is on revisions, both large scale and small scale revisions that will aid us in completing our final written essay for this course. Working for many years summarizing with only bullet points and short email sentences has made this difficult assignment for me. The earlier versions of my essay are close to where I am today, but the route I am taking to get to the conclusion is much different than I had originally anticipated. My ideas were scattered and didn’t make sense. The reverse outline helped me focus on my key points tremendously, now I am finding it difficult to have solid topic statements. I also feel that some of my summaries are not relaying my point of view as clearly as I would like. The review process has

When I first signed up for this class, I had no idea what the course entailed. In all honesty, I only applied for this course because it is a major requirement for me. After nearly completing the course and reflecting back on all of my work, I am truly glad that I had the privilege of enrolling in the course. I have learned an array of social, economic, and environmental issues that cloud our world. After discussing these issues in class and in my discussion section, I feel that a spark has lit inside of me. Seeing the vast range of problems that not only third world countries face, but also the problems that our country faces, made me want to take a step and make a change. I would prioritize local issues because I truly feel that fixing small

In this chapter, the author starts off by discussing the two ways of viewing public speaking. In one way, some may view it as terrifying, and even be angry towards it. Others may see it as an invitation to a journey that may last your entire lifetime. The author also discusses how most of our speeches will be impromptu. There is a one-point impromptu speech, as well as a standard impromptu speech. I enjoyed how the author gave helpful suggestions like keeping the speech short, stay organized, and stick to the point. Special occasion speeches are also discussed throughout this chapter. The goal of these is to unite the audience, reaffirm their beliefs, and honor specific individuals or a group. In order to succeed in a special occasion speech,

This question is asked at the beginning of every year, and my shallow has not changed since my freshman year. The typical "well I play tennis and soccer" "I'm shy at first but talk non-stop once you get know me," basically what everyone else says each year. Most teachers though accept that, and that is as far as they get to know about any of their students, but this is different. I get to explain that I love to be organized and that I am more than just my athletic background.

Rethink my initial written assignment in the first week (see Appendix A), I have a further development of initial reflections that modern teachers should have educational ideas that keep pace with the times. Based on my past learning experience, teachers usually use blackboards and PPTs to teach on the podium. Students take notes on their books and notebooks. However, through studying this Unit, I found that digital technology is becoming increasingly popular and affects all aspects of life. A discussion area was added to moddle this semester, which greatly facilitated discussion between students and teachers. Student and faculty contact is a good way for students to learn more knowledge from each other through using laptop. Students can share their opinion and learning resources on forum, they can also post some questions they did not understand in class, the teacher and some students can give some suggestions or different opinions. In the classroom, the teacher can also use the computer to play teaching videos for us. In the group discussion, we also use laptop. This saves time for our study and allows us more time to communicate with

Well, this semester was interesting. I was confused at first about what was being taught in this class when I first got here. The reason why I was confused at first, was that I came here in middle of the semester, not knowing what to expect or what to do. All I was told, was to try my best, and I think I could have done a little more, which I should have, but it doesn’t mean I won’t comeback next semester with this same start that I had to this semester.

The introduction of a paper is just like someone's appearance, it will leave the first impression and will be the first thing judged. While reading the first paragraph, the reader decides if the essay will be a complete load of garbage, or something worth their time. Recently, I like to believe that more and more of my papers have been falling into the latter. I have learned that a superb beginning is essential to a satisfying end product. Among this, I have learned much more from English Composition. I believe that I am a much stronger writer now than I was when I started this class, some of this progress is due to my ever-changing writing process.

The first speech we did was the narrative speech. I was so nervous during this speech that I cannot remember anything I was doing or saying. If the room wasn’t so small I feel like my voice probably wouldn’t have projected to reach the back of the room. I’m also surprised that I was making eye contact because I really do not remember looking at the room. I’m also surprised that I seemed confident because I did not feel very confident up there. This speech was also the easiest for me in terms of content. It was an event I was there for, so I was able to recall the event and the emotions that were running through everyone.