Flaps Of A Board: A Speech Analysis

Also, there were some difficulties that came about during my speech, one of those difficulties being inadequate direct eye contact. During the length of the speech there were not many time where I looked up and talked directly to my classmates. Something I could have done better to improve this would be to practice even more to ensure that I wouldn’t need to look at my notecards and slides as often. I also could have practiced when to look up and have a successful glance at my audience to have improved eye contact.

One of the things I noticed in my speech was how many times I looked at the screen. I didn’t realize how many times I looked at my prop until I watched myself on video. It was distracting and took away from what I was saying to my audience. Additionally, I feel like I could have improved speaking about the different experiments performed. I feel like they were rushed and I should have stuck to talking about only one or two experiments instead. With my time being rushed, I feel like I couldn’t explain as much of the experiments as I wanted to or as in depth. Lastly, I should have worked on the conclusion for my speech. I wasn’t able to come up with a good conclusion, so it felt as if I left some of the speech left hanging. I mentioned ethical issues performed in the experiments without actually going over it in the speech. Next time, I know I will come up with a solid ending and just wrapping up ideas I already went over in class. I know that for my persuasive speech, I will work on my eye contact, slowing down, and coming up with a solid ending.

In SGA, an E-board’s secretary duties involve keeping an accurate recording of all meetings and holding a record of all paperwork throughout the length of their office term. The skills required for that position are organization, written and verbal communication skills, and punctuality. Along with the position, each year at graduation, every E-Board member is given a task to complete during graduation ceremony; my task was to write a one-minute speech that coincided with the senior class gift I was to present at graduation. I had experience in making public speeches in front of a crowd but never in front of thousands of men, woman and children on such a memorable day. So upon delivering my speech, I had written and rewritten my speech making sure my message was clearly stated and my speech flowed. I practiced every single day before graduation and the morning of graduation. Anxiety had filled by body causing me to sweat and feel waves of heat before walking on stage to deliver my minute-long speech. However, once at that podium and under those blinding lights, I delivered my speech with confidence, ease and clarity, just like I practiced, making that experience the biggest and scariest yet, most fulfilling task I’ve ever

I am normally a very anxious person about giving any kind of presentation. I loathe being the center of attention and always have but that time I was enthusiastic. I was going to get over my fear that day. I told myself everything would be fine and even if I messed up no one would care. I had everything planned out a day in advance. I cannot remember now what my sermon was going to be about but I remember the events leading up to the time I was going to give it.

- What I did well during my speech was looking at my audience. I was always facing my audience and have a quick view to my PowerPoint. I believe I did well on these aspects because I wasn’t like the other students always looking at the PowerPoint and not even facing the audience. I know this is a public speaking class and the point is to talk to our audience while facing them.

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

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

Not putting the time when it can to going over my outline and rehearsal made it difficult to communicate towards my audience. Even though I my audience provided positive feedback I still feel that it could have been better. I did have verbal clutter and I also didn’t use hand jesters as a part of my communication. In addition to my second speech, I felt that I got lost for a little bit even though I manage to pull myself together. I feel now, this could have easily been fixed if I had the time to practice my

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

For one, I could have had better information, and made sure I didn’t repeat the information so much. The information that I had researched proved to be very specific and not necessarily relevant to the topic that I was talking about at the time. This resulted in an overall choppy sounding presentation. The other thing I could have done better was to have someone go over my presentation and proof read/ correct my text. I had some grammatical and spelling errors, mistakes that should have not happened. If I had fixed these two things then my presentation would have been a lot nicer. This, again, would have resulted in a better

When I gave my speech, I felt confident. I don't exactly have a fear of public speaking- anyone who knows me could tell you that. I looked out to the entire audience for the entire speech because I didn't use note cards. I also kept my energy up throughout the speech which helped keep the audience focused on the speech. I made some jokes, and the audience laughed at most of them, which was a good feeling. But because I failed to fully memorize the speech, there were times that I was left trying to figure out the exact phrasing, which took away from the performance slightly, even though I don't believe it was that big of a deal. I also made a pun by ending my speech with "My speech is all ogre now" and very few people caught it. This was probably due to my poor

To analyse the presentation and teamwork I need to be able to understand everyone has different experiences and different ways of working and had their own view on teamwork. My confidence grew as I got to know the team. Giving the presentation has helped me with my confidence, which I will need when I am working in the health care. I have also learned to speak up more and encourage others to take part when they where being quiet and not pulling their weight. It was good to do research using the appropriate methods, looking at journals and professional sites. I managed to hold it together during the presentation in front of everyone. I knew the presentation was not going to go as well has it could due to the lack of practice. The reason I was so nervous was

Mr. Stauffer also mentioned after my speech that keeping my eyes up was something that I needed to work on. I relied on my cards too much which is something that needs working on. Something that was unexpected that happened during my speech was my brain went blank for a quick second while I was on my second point, to get my thought back together I had to look down at my cards for a while. I think next time I give a speech; I am going to practice more. For the shield speech I just practiced the night before and the period before I presented. Next time I give my speech, I want to be able to practice my speech for a couple of nights before I present, that way I can have a lot memorized. Having the speech memorized will make it easier to keep my eyes up and looking around the room. A situation where I might need to introduce myself would be at a new job or at the interview for a new job. When you are working at a new place with people you don't know they might want you to introduce yourself and get to know you more. At a job interview the person that is interviewing you might ask you to tell them stuff about yourself. Another place you have to introduce yourself is in

The room was open and cool, favorable to make sure everyone can see and hear what we had to say. One by one each board member, each with their own information to share went on until it was my turn. Once I got up in front of all the people, the nerves and pressure seemed to disappear from my shoulders, like putting down an old burden. As I talked, I relaxed and got comfortable with the audience, cracking jokes to ease any of my leftover tensions. Once I was done I sat down, and realized how easy it was for me to speak in front of all those people.

Now that I finished the speech writing process I began rehearsing. I rehearse with flashcards, and by timing myself. I honestly did better than what I had expected, I got a 94 out of 100. As I was the first one and on the first day to present, I was really nervous. Looking at my Informative Speech video my delivery after all was not so bad. I thought my voice was good, I did not speak too fast nor too slow. Although my voice was good to me, I am aware that I did stutter and would get stuck on what to say next. I did show many nonverbal cues throughout my speech. At first, I began calmly I was not moving my legs, but then I got nervous since everyone was staring and I began shaking my leg, which showed that I was nervous. As I was getting more comfortable at the end, I kind of stop moving, but still continued to move my body around. I