Informative Speech

Decent Essays

The Informative Speech was my first speech that I ever came up with and I wanted the speech to be something memorable for me. I chose to talk about events in my community because my community is important to me. As I consider Mexico my home, I compared the events from my community to the ones in Mexico Guadalajara, Jalisco. I thought the prompt of the speech was easy for the fact that, the prompt was self-explanatory. The outline was also easy to understand because the outline included everything we as students had to do to fully develop the speech. The writing of the speech was easy for me, as I knew what 3 main points, I wanted to write about. The only problem I had with writing my speech was that I did not know how to break each point apart. For example, my three main points were Jaripeo/Charreada, Tequila, and Mariachi, I did not know what to write for each point, I only knew my points. One way that helped me develop my topic was by using ethical public speaking. According to the article “ethics in public speaking” by Alyssa G. Millner and Rachel D. Price state, “Ethical public speaking is a Process. This process begins when you begin brainstorming the topic of your speech” (3). Looking for sources, was a bit challenging at first, as most of them would be in Spanish. At the end the full development of my speech was good, now I just had to begin rehearsing for my deliberation. 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

Get Access

Informative Speech