Personal Narrative Speech : Personal Speech

I had always assumed that my legs were strong and that I had decent muscle control, however, this thought was proven wrong at the beginning of my junior year in high school due to a detrimental injury. It was the first game of fall league for basketball, and within the first five minutes I had succumbed to an injury. Tearing my ACL and Meniscus has taught me to continue improving on my strength, not let this one injury keep me down, and to keep a positive mindset.

I prepared for my informative speech by practicing several times in front of a mirror at home and timing myself. I worked on keeping my eyes up and trying to memorize my speech to help me keep my eyes out more during the informative speech. I also worked on trying to calm my nerves down, so when I presented my nervousness didn’t show through as much as it did when I gave my shield speech. I would by practicing as much as I did at home, it helped calm my nerves by the time I got up in front of my classmates and gave my informative speech on what girls really mean verse what they say. Although I did practice and it did help calm me down more, I still had my nervousness come out during my informative speech.

Heart racing, knees shaking, arms trembling; it was the first day of my sophomore year and I was about to enter my AP World History, class. My palms were sweaty; I didn’t know what to expect, but afterward, the teacher gave a brief overview of the course. He mentioned how it was rigorous and demanding course, and it would prepare us for college-level courses, such as developing our speaking skills and helping us receive college credits. We focused on teaching the class about the content, which was good opportunity to defeat my fear. At this point, I had to get over my fear of presenting in front of others, but the thought of it tortured me. All I could think of was my 10-year-old self speechlessly standing in front of many students with so

My name was announced. The silence in the room allowed me to hear the judges’ pens scratch through my concise, four- letter name. With my baggy blue button- down, and all black dress- pants on, I proceeded down the auditorium aisle and onto the stage. Even though the crowd consisted of only around 30 uninterested students who purposefully displayed their lack of care, I still felt a pressing audience. Turning to my public- speaking teacher, I acknowledged the “you-may-begin” nod and turned back to the crowd, realizing what I had gotten myself into.

As I walked out of my dorm that morning for my 9am class, I checked my schedule to see where I needed to go. My first class was public speaking in room 232. My stomach instantly dropped. The calmness I once felt left my body in a rush. Public speaking was my worst fear. I stuttered and mumbled and shook each time I entered a crowded room. Speaking in front of a whole classroom has never been on my bucket list. I fretfully continued my journey to room 232. I attempted to give myself a pep talk along the way to help calm my nerves, but nothing was helping. I told myself that this was not

Claudia’s lesson on public speaking was, also about learning to build a power point properly and how to draw in people’s attention. She explained an acronym called S.E.E.; this acronym

When I work as team, I has communication with other member so, it has several solution that can help to improve my communication to have more professional. The initially topics is meeting management. The beginning of working should planning meeting. Meeting divide into 3 parts are before, during, and after. In the part of before, I should know the purpose and role of meeting. During meeting, if it is face to face meeting, I should know agenda of the meeting and participants their role for easy to communicate about work. After meeting, I should sure that I and other team member understand the information of the meeting because I may discuss with other team member. In addition, after the meeting finish, I should prepare myself for the next meeting.

Throughout life some haven't stopped advancing and improving themselves. To continue to learn no matter their age since for some it is just a number, a number that can be overseen to learn something that will make an actual difference in their life or others. Communication has always been a necessity but over time has developed in multiple ways due to current level of technology. With this development communication needs to be taught in a controlled manner for the effective use of communication. During this professional and technical communication class over this term has assisted me in the advancement and improvement in my communication. Improvements like giving me an increased ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences as well as that I can more effectively write in

I’m not really the loud type. I love to ponder questions but it’s just to myself. Sure, I love a good competition and sometimes I enjoy battling with talents. A struggle between the smoothest folds of origami paper versus the flyability of a paper airplane. But I don’t like to be the center of attention. I’m not the one to speak up a new idea. I’m not out-going by nature; I rarely challenge others openly and I abhor presentations. This is me. “Who wants to present their project first?” My middle school language arts teacher’s voice rang out like a harsh, shrill whistle. We’ve just finished a unit on Egyptian mythology and many projects were dying to be presented. I had worked hard and I could feel my project squealing to be revealed; like a rodent trapped under a trashcan lid. My teacher uses popsicle sticks. However, this time she asked “who would like to present first?” The hands of my rambunctious classmates shot up: Nick, John, Cece. Anyone else? My stomach sunk as I felt myself raising my hand. Like a bright searchlight on a runaway prisoner, my

Looking at Marlene sitting at the defendant's table with tears pouring down her face, Phyllis asked, “Why won’t you let me tell you the rest?”

Enrolling in this class is particularly important as my communication with my five teenage children have taken a dramatic nosedive since their father and I divorced.

“Tienes que leer y escribir en ingles,” (I had to read and write in English), said my father. People would think, “Well you have an advantage because you speak Spanish.” Well, it was easier said than done, growing up in two different worlds it was difficult my vocabularies would mix up and I would end up making a new tongue twister. Therefore, I was not fortunate with my literacy in any aspect. I would get called dumb since I would not pronounce every vowel, word nor consonants correctly. I had a rough time in elementary school because I was a “joke”, but that did not stop me from learning I taught myself how to read and write in English.

At the end of my ninth grade year, I signed up to run for the Windber Cross Country team. Prior to this, I had never participated in a sport, especially running at this caliber. Connecting to this sport, along with the team, was one of the best decisions I made my high school career. This experience has allowed me to create strong friendships that will last beyond my schooling, and it all started with me failing horribly.

“OMG,” screamed my mother in the car when my family and I were driving to Las Vegas, on freeway 15. Before my mother screamed, we were singing and talking throughout the two hours in the car. My father turned down the music and said to my mother, “Aneta, let’s switch places so you will drive the rest of the route.” My father was on his way to exit the freeway, as I remember it was exit 169, around three o’clock and this is when and where it all started.

As of 2015, more people in the United States were scared of public speaking than zombies or volcanoes or even death. The fear of public speaking--also known as glossophobia--is a type of performance anxiety, which is a subgroup of anxieties that include test anxiety, stage fright, etc. The sensations felt by an individual could have been as minuscule as slight tremors, or as overwhelming as gargantuan panic coupled with paralyzing fear. To have stated that glossophobia was a difficult fear to overcome would be a tremendous understatement; it took forever and a day to break the vicious cycle, with the mandatory addition of constant practice. Nevertheless, individuals have overcome their fear of public speaking by carefully preparing their presentation, using correct breathing techniques before and during the presentation, and by interacting with their audience frequently.