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My Reflection On Communication And Communication

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This quarter during communications we were told that we had to do four speeches and two impromptus. Initially, this made me nervous because I didn’t know what I would speak about or who I would do pair and group work with. These speeches made each student in the class meet goals at their own pace (sort of), allowed them to grow their communication skills, and learn more about topics that interested them. The first of the three goals was to “improve ability to deliver speeches for a variety of purposes, situations, and audiences.” This goal was to be met by giving both prepared and impromptu speeches both in class and to other groups. My speeches were my introductory speech, my talk from TEC, a persuasive speech about media bias with …show more content…

There were times where I was unable to meet with my ILP partner that day but even with that everything went smoothly in regards to communicating ideas. This also relates to my persuasive speech. There were many times where one of the pair of Abby and I were gone. However, we were still able to communicate our ideas with each other because we had documents that we could both access and were efficient enough to get everything done when both of us were here. The goal of communicating effectively in groups was shown by the senior center visits and group informative planning. The senior center visits ability is shown mostly through my senior service learning project, where I went over each what happened during our visits, how I felt, and what impact it had on me. These things are also shown through my journal entries from the weeks that we visited. The group informative helped me grow as a communicator because we had three people that were all working together and all had different ideas of what should be in the speech. We had to discuss exactly what part of the broad topic we wanted to inform the audience of, which ended up being misconceptions. The time spent working on it was sometimes silent, but at other times was full of discussion on what we were working on and what parts

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