Powerpoint Rhetorical Analysis

I did a very good job of getting my three points across without confusing anyone. Another thing I thought I did very well was the visuals I brought in. They were very big and everyone in the classroom was able to see them clearly. As the next speech comes around one thing I need to work on is my eye contact. During my shield speech I only looked up a few times, but I never made eye contact individually with any people. Another thing I can improve is how long I practice for my speech. If I would run through my speech a few times throughout the week and the night before my speech would turn out much better. I also made very well written out index cards, but I did not use them as much of an aid. I think that if I practiced a little more than what I did my speech could have flowed better. During my speech one thing that was really unexpected for me was the time. I came into the speech thinking I would have plenty of time to get everything I wanted to say out, but when I started talking about my family I was already three minutes in. When it came to the actual speech I almost had a small nervous

(Q.2.) In comparison to my demonstration speech, I believe the introduction to my informative speech was much stronger, because I told a story instead of asking a question. My story allowed for my audience to have a mental picture of what I was talking about. How I related child development to my audience was much more effective in my informative speech than my demonstration speech. In my demonstration speech, not everyone raised their hand when I asked my question. In my informative speech, I related it to my audience by saying everyone has went through child development. I felt more confident in my informative speech because I practiced many times in front of my family and friends. I got marked points off for being too read-y in my demonstration speech, so for my informative speech I worked on not memorizing the whole thing. By not memorizing my informative speech I felt more confident while presenting.

Also, there were some difficulties that came about during my speech, one of those difficulties being inadequate direct eye contact. During the length of the speech there were not many time where I looked up and talked directly to my classmates. Something I could have done better to improve this would be to practice even more to ensure that I wouldn’t need to look at my notecards and slides as often. I also could have practiced when to look up and have a successful glance at my audience to have improved eye contact.

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

During the speech, I was also a good speaker in many ways. I had a good voice projection, my hand moment was consistent, I was always facing the audience and held eye contact, and had facial expressions to emphasize the importance of a topic. Right off the bat when I was explaining my citation saying According to the U.S Census Bureau “there are alone 5.7% Asian’s in the United States,” I was pointing my hands to make sure everyone was paying attention to the numbers. Another thing I did well during the speech was, that I kept eye contact with everyone during the speech

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.

3. Was the speech well-organized? Did it have a robust introduction, a solid body with specific main points, and a conclusion? How was the time allotment for each section (too long, too short?) Were the times dedicated to each section appropriate? (Introduction and Conclusion: between 45 seconds to1 minute; Body: main points each 1:15 – 1:30)

Overall, I achieved my speech calmly and confidently. I scored myself a 6 in this category because I did not rush the speech and I did not have a shaky speaking voice. I also scored myself a 6 for having no distracting behaviors. My feet were glued to the ground and a did not play with

The feedback I received was varied. The planning, structure and content of the presentation was good and well structured. Based on this feedback I was happy with the flow and how the presentation came across from this perspective. As a result I don’t think I would change how I went about creating the presentation. I do a lot of planning and project work as part of my day to day job so structuring it I found quite

After completing the speech, I thought I did good in some area and can improve other. While giving this speech I was able to focus on my topic and utilize given time. I thought I won’t be able to stand in front of the class and speak for that long, but I went over the time limit. I’m sure I was able to explain the subject matter and entertain audiences. I also believe I speak with a voice that is able to reach all audiences.

I feel as though I addressed my goals effectively through my visuals and the video. I did everything I intended on doing for my presentation and was very proud of the outcome of it. One thing I would have done differently is I would have created a script beforehand to present more smoothly and I would have added some statistics to help support my points I made.

I think that our conversation was really good because we only had one pause and it was really brief. I also liked how when one person said something we would build off of that and the conversation would flow really well.

136. In this speech, a big thing that detracted from it was not quoting anything. I don’t understand why I didn’t quote any of my sources, but it is a very important thing to do and is bad when left out. It is hard to be credible if you’re not telling your audience where you got your information, because for all they know you got it off of Wikipedia. I realized this was a major mistake and will not let it happen again in my future speaking career. Not quoting my sources also made it unclear if I had to research most of my information or if I just knew most of it. I got a lot of my information from my own knowledge and from another person who experienced the situation. I think I appeared somewhat knowledgeable. I felt very confident during my speech. I also had

It was fairly easy to give my arguments with confidence, because I made sure to make direct contact with people, such as when I was starting with a hypothetical story, I targeted one or two people. I had a good dynamic delivery throughout my speech, and I was able to talk more serious during the real life situations that are affecting each student in the classroom to show my emotional stance. Lastly, even though it was my best speech so far this quarter, I still have room for improvement in many areas. I

So I used my prior knowledge of the subject matter and researched very well. And I read lots of online articles and books. As such the content of the speech outline was very good. Very detailed. My sources were also credible.