Self Critique Speech

Many things must be taken into consideration when addressing a class of students. Many of them share similar interests such as me, seeing that we are both share many things in common as we both attend UW Whitewater. I am familiar with the class and there interests because of the bag speeches so my speech that I will give will be more laid back because I am more comfortable with them. I have also given a speech in front of this audience before, this will help with my nerves as well as my delivery.

Presenting a speech can have it difficulties, whether it is you not having a loud speaking voice or nervousness, you still have to have the ability to deliver a great speech to your audience. On January 20, 1961 over 49 years ago our late President John F. Kennedy presented the Inaugural Address, in Washington D.C. The weather was very cold, and it was one of the largest crowds at the Inauguration.

One topic that i can deliver as a credible speech, could be about over fishing. To build my credibility i will make sure my apperance is nice and make sure i have my audience attention an trust. I'll also give the audience a brief description about what i will be going over with them. I'm very credible in my topic because i know a lot of information about over fishing. I have many resources i had looked into such as books, the internet, social media and having discussions with peoples about over fishing. Your appearance can affect your topic selcetion in so many ways because you can dress nice but it may throw your audience off by your topic cause the way you appeared to present your topic.

The feedback I recieved for both my response paper, and my conversation paper was very helpful in helping me see where there is room for improvement. In my response paper, Amy pointed out a writing error and a quotation error. My classmates suggested that I go a bit further into detail about Freire's ideas.

In my opinion, the paper is well written, held my attention and is well organized. The only negatives I could really find were a few grammar and spelling errors that I believe you would be able to see by reading it

Support your presentation with the concepts discussed in class and in the text, and your personal experiences.

Overall elements of my speech that I enjoyed were my strong facial expressions and my ability to maintain enough eye contact with the audience. Elements I could work on was not showing the audience how nervous I was going up, practice on my body language and not try to move too much when presenting. Work on my pace while I read and try not to stumble across things. To ensure improvement practice ahead of time and make sure it’s constant, not just the night before the speech, but a few days in advance or whatnot.

For me public speaking is a form a communication. People communicate with one another everyday, many times a day. However, we do not always communicate with people in the form of public speaking. Public speaking is used more for as a platform; for instance, delivering speeches and giving presentations is a form of public speaking. Public speaking is a platform used to deliver messages. Not many people are exposed to this form of communication so when they have to do it, it becomes difficult for them. Normally, people are not used to speaking in front of large crowds, so this makes them uncomfortable. The art of public speaking is a useful skill, that everyone should posses.

Initially, when I first registered to enroll for this online Speech class, I did not know what to expect. I thought that we would only meet in order to present the required speeches and then I thought that we would have a virtual classroom to give speeches were we were all online at once. Now I know that both of my guesses were wrong. For our speeches, we either record them online and invite classmates as audience members to watch, or have a live audience of family and/or friends that record you giving your speech in your living room or somewhere similar. When I found out that these were the ways I would be giving my speeches, I was so surprised. When I am speaking in front of a live audience in a classroom, I get so nervous, so I thought that this method of giving presentations might be less anxious for me.

My group’s presentation was on ‘Nutrition’ which focused on Maori adolescents aged 10-12 years. We all stood at the front of classroom presenting the topic to our lecturer and fellow classmates. For a clearer explanation of each section we used PowerPoint slides. In order to capture the audience’s attention, we avoided adding too much text 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.

When looking yourself speaking, it can be a scary thing to witness. A sense of embarrassment or pride will billow up inside. When analyzing my speech from the recording, I looked at my organizational strengths, vocal delivery, and nonverbal communication.

Purpose: To share best practices to students how to carry out the 7-minute video clip of a sample public speech with flying colors.

I might want to sit down somewhere comfy with your 2 cats because I have a feeling this is going to be very long! I really don’t know where to start because there is just so much I want to say. In eighth grade I remember my goal was to get a 90 in math class just one quarter. Eighth grade was the year I developed severe test anxiety and my fear of failing. I remember telling you my goal of getting a 90 in your class and you telling me to come after school to help me with my homework since I didn't understand how to do it. Little do I think either of us realize what was going to happen. Every single day after school I would stay after with you and if you couldn’t stay after you told me to come during your lunch period. During test when I would freak out you would calm down somehow. I never liked math, it was never my favorite, but then I started to enjoy going to math class. It quickly became the class I would look forward to going to everyday. You were so patient with me and I don’t know how you did it cause I was a big cry baby (still am lol). You taught me things I would soon learn to bring over to other classes and my grades slowly started to improve in not just math but, English, Science, and Social Studies. The first quarter I got an 83, second quarter was an 82, third quarter that beautiful and glorious 90. I can’t remember I time before that where I have ever felt so accomplished and proud of myself. I didn’t let my ADHD, or test anxiety get in my

I feel that I have learned these things to an extent greater than before I took this course. I knew the general concepts of public speaking as well as rhetoric but not as deeply as I understand them now. The three student outcomes that I have seen the most development with are deliver extemporaneous, in-person speeches in English that contain logically coherent and adequately supported assertions, organized to intentionally affect the specific listening audience, apply communication theory, concepts, principles to make rhetorical choices and actively listen, critically evaluate and thoughtfully respond to the diverse perspectives of all members of the community. The assignment that helped me learn how to deliver speeches wasn’t just one assignment but rather all the speeches leading up to this point in the class. Although I am still not completely comfortable with public speaking, it is getting easier because I feel less nervous. Practicing in front of the class and learning how to do an outline for a speech has helped me feel prepared and less anxious when giving speeches. The assignment that helped me learn how to apply concepts was the in-class assignments we did when we worked with other students in our class to make fallacies and what not. I learn better in collaborative settings because I can bounce my ideas off of other people and hear their ideas and learn from them. The assignment that helped me how to actively listen and critically evaluate things was the

Libby Streeton- Irrational thinking is common in a nuclear war, right? Why did I expect Fin and Max would change their minds? I begged them through a river of tears to stay with me. But that was not enough. I can’t adjust to reality, watching their lanky bodies fade in the distance keeps reminding me of the fate of their lives. Max is only 12, too young to witness violent and unforgiving deaths of innocent citizens. What happens if I never see them again? I assumed I was doing right but apparently, what I think is right is wrong. I am only just beginning to realise what has just happened. They are gone. My two young boys are gone forever. I have hugged them for the final time. They risked their lives to find me. But I couldn’t do the same. I’m stuck in a half broken down office building in the middle of a deserted city and I can’t leave because too many people rely on me to stay here and help. Inhale. Exhale. I keep thinking about what my life is like now, and right now I feel it is hopeless. I am isolated, sitting in a patrolled corner of an office, trying to deal with this absolute shit of a situation. I’m a failure of a mother to let my children out of my sight and endanger themselves by going out onto the deserted streets to find a group of people that may or may not even exist. I had the chance to keep them here, but I lost it just as easily.