Speech “I’m sorry, Molly, but I can’t understand you”, “Can you repeat that for me? “I’m sorry, what?” “It's not _______ it’s ________”. These were the responses that I heard most often while I was learning to speak. When I was younger, I had a hard time communicating. No one could understand what I was saying and I was told that I frequently sounded like I was in a tunnel. These responses were very frustrating as I was learning to speak. I knew what I was trying to say and I was baffled why other
By reflecting upon my Values Speech, I will be more aware of what skills I have already accomplished and what skills I need to improve on in order to prepare myself better for the next big speech as well as to further improve my public speaking skills. Now that I look back at the recording of my presentation, I clearly saw strengths that were shown, but there were also weaknesses that I revealed, diminishing the overall powerful effect that my speech should have gave. As I watched Amy Cuddy’s TED
With regards to my strengths, I would say that the introduction to my speech fulfilled its role of being a strong attention grabber. I believe beginning the speech with a personal story drew the attention of my classmates while also making it more personable and accessible. Through my introduction I was able to easily provide information about myself, while simultaneously engaging my classmates all while informing them of my ethnicity, history, and culture. I felt my incorporation of humor served
Reflection on my Persuasive Speech All communication is an attempt to influence, highlights Back (1951) and, by extension, hinders the audience 's preconceptions on a topic. Thinking about communication and particular verbal strategies and theory both brought forth excellent criticisms and compliments ofor my persuasive speech. It 's purpose being to persuade the audience in favour of Britian 's exit from the European Union. My persausive speech aimed to educate the audience further on a topic and
MY EVALUATION During my last three years of highschool, I took model united nations as an elective course. In this course I learned how to create an effective impromptu speech. So, while there may be less preparation while using impromptu, it is what I am most comfortable with. I've found that the preparation used to formulate an informative speech tends to make it so that one over thinks their topic which can make it seem as though the speaker is constantly thinking about their information rather
debate is beneficial to me, and how it helped me throughout my school year and my later life in general. Such as how to speak clearly, extend my voice and how to pronounce and enunciate clearly so that my voice is vocalized clearly and in a way that is in a way that is very understandable to everyone. Which can be seen on numerous occasions from ballots at the beginning of the year such as “ AST # 1 ” which I learned a lot from as it was my first debate and at this tournament I took congressional debate
Completing this introduction speech was a great experience for me overall I thought. I was actually first to complete my introduction speech amongst my peer classmates, so I driven to set the bar high and leave an example for the rest the class. Grading myself from the rubric on a scale of 100, I would grade myself at a 79.5% which would round up to a 80% which is a B on the grading scale. For the learning expectations for this assignment, I demonstrated effective delivery techniques and I created
audience. With each speech I gave, I believe I improved with not only my delivery but also my content in each speech. My introductions and conclusions became stronger with each speech. Not that I had a problem with them, but there is always room for improvement. The amount of filler words I used from my first speech to my last drastically decreased. The ones I used most of the time were “um” and “uh”. The structures of my speeches improved as well. At first, I had no solid structure to my information and
My group’s presentation was on ‘ Nutrition’ which focused on Maori adolescent aged 10-12. It was structured into four sections. We used powerpoint slides alongside clear explanation for each section. In order to capture audience’s attention, we avoided adding too many texts on the slides and used pictures, tables or quotes instead. In the final section we tried to engage the audience by showing a video rather than constant verbal explanation. I felt really anxious during my presentation. I couldn't
Speech Preparation Reflection Alicia Ramos COM/110 April 25, 2016 Linda Price Speech Preparation Reflection The best way to prepare for a presentation, one must consider the best method, the type of presentation and the audience for a given topic. There are four different types of presentation methods they are; Impromptu, Extemporaneous Speaking, Using a Manuscript, and Memorization. Each of the four methods is appropriate in certain situations. Impromptu is a speech that frequently involves