How To Write A Self Critique

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.

I believe it flowed nicely and I successfully presented it in an extemporaneous fashion. I rehearsed numerous times and removed certain material to achieve an acceptable time. The last few times I rehearsed the time was just over six minutes while the real deal put me at seven minutes and forty-five seconds. The video revealed extra material that I ad-libbed. I knew what to say, I practiced it but still found myself adding material when it wasn’t necessary. One would think that would add an insignificant amount of time, but in combination with that, the glancing at my notes, and pauses, it did and put me over the time limit. I believe more practice will improve future

However, I recall that the minute I began the first few lines of my real performance, my heart pounded fast and my voice wavered. I have heard that this anxiety is quite usual, especially when one is a novice speaker. However, I managed to stabilize after a second or so, and was able to gain control of my emotions. One of my peers also observed my gesture of putting my hands in my pockets quite often during the presentation. My friend, Joshua, noticed I slurred a couple of my words in my poem. Although these mistakes were completely sub-conscious, it is important for me to correct them as they could be potential sources of distraction for the audience and can steal their attention away from the actual performance. Some of my friends advised me to memorize my poem by thinking about some analogies, but I refused to do so as I wanted to actually know the symbolic meaning of my poem. I believe that the key to delivering a good performance is practice, confidence and knowledge of matter, not performing from pure memorization! My opinion on spoken word this year has still not changed, and I still believe it is essential to include into this year's curriculum. I have reflected on my weaknesses, and am ready to perform better in the near

This was something I was concerned about because when rehearsing for my speech I was worried the points were unbalanced but during the speech I did not feel like I spoke more about one topic than the other. I think it helped that I recognized this during rehearsing, so I was conscious of it during my presentation. Another thing I think I did well was my vocalized pauses. My um's & and's. Although I am aware that I still used vocalized pauses, I think it was a lot less frequent than in my first speech. I could definitely improve on a few things for my next speech. I feel that for my next speech I could improve on being relaxed and calming myself down. I need to remind myself I know what I am talking about and not get so tense and shaky during the presentation. Also I need to work on my eye contact. I looked at the crowd, but they were glances. And short ones. I need to extend my eye contact length and width. I need to focus and not reading from my cards and holding the eye contact for longer than a

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

3. You are critiquing the work, not the person. The critique should start with the strengths of the work. What works and why? Identify at least two places where the writer does any of the following successfully, and explain your reason for why it is effectively used:

The introduction & attention getter were complete but weren’t very engaging, which in my opinion was my speeches biggest flaw. My speech wasn’t one that as soon as you heard it you gave it your undivided because the importance of they topic in my opinion was very subjective. In my opinion the me employing a very loud, lively attention getter would’ve

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.

I did not expect this lack of effort from you,” he lectured. That was the breaking point of my composure. The tears that I had been holding back rushed down my face, and I was angry at myself for letting my presentation go to waste. How could I explain to my teacher that I truly had practiced? How could I tell him that I had repeated my soliloquy in the shower, presented it in front of my roommate so many times that she could recite it without thinking, practiced it in different voices in the mirror, and even read it in my head before falling asleep? I had done everything I could to prepare, but as soon as I stood in front of the class, my mind went

Self-assessment writing is a great way to gain insight into how effective my writing style is and helps me to recognize improvement where they’re needed. Throughout the semester there have been three major essays written. Each one a different style giving the writer a different mindset each time, this results in the finding problems in one essay that may not have happened in another. When self-assessing there needs to be to a criteria on which one can reflect on and categorize their weakest and strongest points in writing, these criteria for example can be content, organization and coherence, style, argument and support, and mechanics. After categorizing there are questions that need to be asked such as, as a writer, what do you do well? And what aspect of your writing needs the most improvement?

I have given quite a few speeches in the last few years, even at such a young age. Though I was proficient when I started this class, I have improved even more in these last six weeks. My strengths definitely fall in my organization and content. However in my delivery I often lack in vocal variety and volume, mostly due to nerves, and I often rushing my conclusions. Due to the rank I have in organizations like the National Honor Society, I will often have to speak in public or address my peers so I plan on continuing to practice for my speeches out loud and hopefully I will improve.

Comparing my first speech to this one, I can see several differences. I can tell by watching and listening that I was very nervous. My first speech was much easier, because it was over a topic that I know endless amounts of information about. I fumbled over my words, and that throws off rhythm, and makes me use several verbal pauses. The first speech, I hardly used my note cards. I did have them filled out but after starting the speech, I just went by the picture order and talked accordingly. My second speech, I could see many of the same mistakes. Being nervous is the main culprit, but practicing more, would have made the presentation smoother. I practiced multiple times, on a few different

As an overview of my speech, I didn’t put enough effort on my speech that I would liked to have done. After finishing my outline I only look at my paper a few times just going over what I would be saying for my speech. The reason that I didn’t spend too much time practicing with my speech was because I was very busy where as my other classes are demanding when it comes to time manages meant. As a result for not practicing, I have notice a huge difference on my second speech in comparison to my first. Whereas my first speech I had spent the proper amount of time going over the material and practicing my rehearsal with my girlfriend (Cassie). Conversely to my first speech I felt confident on what I wanted to talk about, but one huge difference was that I didn’t practice my rehearsal. As a result of not putting the time to practice my speed I had verbal clutter and not being

I had the optimal tone, the proper intensity, and the emotion well balanced but in several instances a lack of memorization prevented me from delivering an excellent performance. My expressiveness was the best one for the day, and should be attributed to my empathy with the character of the speech. Although it is not cogent to understand an incoherent mind such as in the case of my character with mental sickness. Nonetheless, I tried my best to understand these feelings and expressed them as well. Alltogether, I did not think my overall performance could match Yonic. Again, practice, practice and practice; I have to really keep it in

Midway through my speech I felt safe and confident due to the fact that I remembered all of my lines. Everything was clicking and going in a smooth, steady pace. Knowing I had a time limit, I glanced over