Reflection Analysis

Ian-Bradley Tancred This essay analyses and describes what reflection is and how it supports your personal and professional learning. It elaborates upon how and why recognizing your strengths and weaknesses are important and how they can enhance lifelong learning. It describes what arguments and assertions are, what the differences are between them and which one is better.

Have you ever sat through a boring speech? That person probably didn’t focus on the salient points, but went through every detail instead. That’s not the way to keep an audience’s attention!

In order to prepare for this torero trek, I would attend more resume and elevator pitch workshops, and schedule more appointments at the career development center. I attended the Engineering Career fair that was on the 4th of October. In which, I got my first exposure to employers and I was able to practice my elevator pitch and my networking skills. I later scheduled an appointment with Rhonda Harley at the career development center to get some feedback on my resume.

I would not have done things differently if I had the chance to change anything in the presentation because I did everything that I could. For this presentation, I started rehearsing the week before. This presentation was one of my main priorities. I would read on the train or in between classes. Because of my hard work, I was able to memorize the entire speech. In addition, I believed that I improved within these last few months. Before communication class, I was not the best at public speaking. Honestly, I was frustrated because I knew it was going to take me a while before I get comfortable with public speaking. However, after taking communication class for months, I realized that I just needed a push. Because of this class, I was able to learn many important factors that go into speech making and practice my speech skills. Currently, I am not as scared as I was in the first speech. I will continue to further improve my communication skills to help me grow as an individual and to better my

In this reflection paper, I really want to take to the time and effort needed to show what I truly believe reflects on how my semester should and will change. Going through my quiz, I really noticed that many of my answers were telling me that I really have a lot of habit and some necessarily were not so good. Like the fact that I am the type of writer that is always wanting to plan heavily on my papers, in the sense that I like to structure out my papers. Mainly making a list before I start writing and trying to outline specific details I want to get across in my essay prompts.

I believe I showed confidence, for the most part. I deliberately practiced going slow, because last time a few words were hard to understand due to the speed in which I was speaking. However, I think my nerves got the best of me and I didn’t go as slow as I would have liked. I need to make a conscious effort, while delivering, to slow down. On the bright side, I didn’t use the filler “um” nearly as many times as I did in my last speech, but it was still a distraction when I did. I also could have used pausing more effectively, especially since my topic was precognitive dreaming. Pausing would have been effective because of the tone of the topic. Another area that improved from my last speech was vocal variety, although not as drastically as I would have liked. I tend to choose a tone of voice in the beginning of my speech, and stick to it. Vocal variety would have kept the audience’s attention. The area where I could have improved the most in this particular speech was eye contact. It was hard not to read from my powerpoint, due to it being right in front of me. In order to avoid this, I should have moved out from behind the computer, which would have worked in my favor. Not only would it have allowed the audience to see me more clearly, but it also would have lessened the temptation to read from my

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In order to produce an effective and well developed essay that clearly reflected my purpose to a distinct audience, I maintained a structuralized system throughout the entire process. I made sure to pay close attention to every step taken and self reflect on whether or not the change was an effective step closer to my final draft. In fact, I set up a system of comments and revisions for myself, in order to prioritize development. Not only this, but I also attempted at demonstrating writing techniques that were reflected in other reading passages discussed in class. Overall, I was able to produce a final draft of an informative narrative in which I reflected my purpose to a distinct audience.

Obviously, speeches are scary for anyone who hates public speaking. I happen to be one of those people; I get terribly nervous see all the faces staring at me. I am nervous about that sort of stuff, but I’m trying to get over it. Honestly, I think it was a great thing that I was able to get this speech out of the way. Once I get through doing something like this, I tend to get a lot more comfortable afterwards with my classmates. Doing these speeches even when I don’t want to is definitely a pro; it prepares me for the real world. I really liked the topic I presented. I felt that when I did this speech it was much better than the last one. I believe this happened because the topic was something I have done before and am very

These two issues which most of my classmates faced, apparently was not an issue for me because I went quite a bit over on time and the according to the positive feedback which Professor Jaffe, gave me after completing my speech, was that I did a good job engaging the room, by purposely making eye contact with people. I, also, did not have bad body language like some of my classmates, who showed their hands in their pockets, played with their beards or hair or stared at the ground or towards the back of the room.

For the TGMD-2, my participant was named James Williams. He is a six year old boy who is in first grade at Just Elementary and his physical education teacher is Coach Mark Perry. For his age, William possessed advanced movement on a lot of the tasks. With regards to the TGMD-2, it will be beneficial to look at each of the specific activities and where the William was at developmentally.

One of the most recognizable characteristics throughout the tutor sessions was how interactive each meeting was. In terms of tutoring and mentoring, I find that the interaction between individuals is among the most important determinants of how well the student progresses academically. This is one of the main factors I attempted to implement to the best of my ability during each session. Whether Janee and I were working on researching a Golden Age in America for social studies or calculating proportions for mathematics, the facilitative role I served as a tutor and mentor promoted discussion-based sessions, as we completed the assignments as team players. Furthermore, the supportive role I served and the service executed greatly promoted her ability to build a sense of willpower and learning, one that encouraged a "can-do" spirit. Over time, Janee gradually developed a willingness and desire to take the lead during the sessions. Over time, she required less assistance and would complete the assignments prior to our meeting. For example, for her "Literacy for Life" class, students are provided an opportunity to earn extra credit for formulating sentences that utilize a 12th grade vocabulary word. Janee would often complete the sentences and request my feedback to determine if the sentences are acceptable. The same occurred for her science homework at discussed types of energy, such as kinetic and potential energy. The assigned packet each class was mostly completed, for which

We often have the wrong purpose in mind when we are preparing a speech, or we have to many purposes that we want to present the goal of the presentation is lost. Which in return causes the audience to be confused and when the audience is confused we stress, or at least I do. One of my biggest struggles in life is the idea that everyone must like me, I am generally a nice person who likes to please people and make them happy. If someone does not like me I must know why they do not like me and if there is anyway to change the fact of their views towards me. I find it amazing that in our speech classes or any opportunity to publically speak for that matter, we are able to tell someone something so we need to make it important. We have the ability to have someone's undivided attention for a moment in time, and we should make that time be of value and truly impact an audience with our words. There is almost a hundred percent chance that someone is going to disagree agree with you because that is human nature, but just think how boring it would be if everyone had the same exact thoughts and viewpoints. Try and give your audience advice and information that is of value, and if they are unable to appreciate it then do not over think why they did not like it but instead be happy with the way that you presented it.

Even the most accomplished students – ones who turn in all their homework on time, study for every test, complete all the extra credit offered, and receive all As on their report card – will come to a point in their academic career where they find themselves struggling in a certain subject. For me, that area has always been my comprehension skills. I experienced many moments where I felt as though I would never succeed the way I hoped to in high school or in college because of my terrible reading and comprehension skills, but I was wrong. I realized that nobody can make it through school, or life, without reaching a point that is difficult for them; how that person deals with it during and after the fact, is what will control their

Attending Samford University as a freshman, I was more than positive that all of my classes would be boring until I enrolled in Communication Arts 101. Communication Arts is a class required for all freshmen to take and it helps develop writing and speaking skills that will empower us as students. Traditionally, college professors will ask their students to write an essay and move on to the next assignment. In contrast, Samford University incorporates formal speeches into the curriculum to help students vocally express their research and thoughts. Our class was recently assigned to deliver an Informative speech, which is a major portion of our grade. My speech received a fairly good grade; however, there are some aspects of my speech that