Speech Reflection

The speaker did a very good job with his speech. His speech I believe is more informative, because he is describing his recent experience with appendicitis. The area that I liked most about his speech was his introduction. He had a very good hooked that got a lot of people’s attention including my own. He scared me for a moment, because he made everybody believe that he was going to show everybody his appendix that he just had removed from his body. Instead he showed the appendix of a book. Also, as he presented his speech he expressed what happened to him with very personal information. This information helped him establish his credibility. He presented his speech very well and sounded very confident. However, there were a few brief pauses

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.

However, I was very nervous giving the speech. This is a weakness that I noticed and that was mentioned by the peer evaluators. The most obvious sign of my nervousness was my repetitive use of the space-filler "mmmm"

1. What did you did well? Why do you think you did well on these aspects of your speech? Elaborate.

I really enjoyed watching the speech that you chose and reading your post. I watched a speech by Samuel Cohen about raising awareness of the devastating disease Alzheimer’s. I think that both of the speakers did a wonderful job in the delivery of their speech. When Samuel Cohen was giving his speech, he was very sober and wasn’t smiling. This is because it wasn’t a story that he should have been happy about telling about unlike the speaker Mandy Len Catron who gave a more upbeat speech. Both speakers used their hands appropriately when giving their speeches and had good use of visual aids to enhance their speeches and to get their points across. Both speeches were very different and I liked watching both of them because they both did a very

This week, and all the assignments and reading it entailed, will be extremely vital as we look more into future assignments and quizzes. After our first quiz, which allowed us to establish some fundamentals in public speaking (ex. types of anxieties and the canons of rhetoric), we had a thorough in class discussion and were given the rubrics for our next assessment. Whilst analyzing these two topics I’ll be discussing how they could positively impact one’s readiness for the upcoming speech.

My personal speech was based on an informative and demonstrative structure based on the AR-15 rifle. My more compassion and nerdy personality came out the most because I know a lot of people like and dislike the AR and I had to talk about the tragic events that have happened where children and adults have been killed by it but at the same time, the rifle has a lot of history with Americans and is seen by some as a pride and joy. The military versions of it have defended our nation from foreign and domestic enemies. My nerdy side for my interest in wanting to know how things work or the engineering aspect of it. I felt like I did engage the audience but some things I would have done to improve my speech would have been to make more eye contact and walked around the room showing my classmates the mechanical parts

The “Quirks Speech” for me is going to be about my biggest pet peeve; people chewing with their mouths open. While preparing for the speech, I sifted through the possible subjects on my brainstorm sheet, until it became clear that chewing loudly was my main topic. Much like in past years, after I new my topic I began writing my outline for the speech. Whenever I am creating a speech, the outline is the most important factor in my success. Whether it was about me, The Renaissance, or Romeo and Juliet, I have found myself to be more confident and get a better grade when I practice with the outline.

The speech came off sounding natural and not overly rehearsed. I believe you had an outline but very barely used it. Not depending

The first thing I noticed about my content was how the audience received it. The topic was Karl von Muller and his naval campaign during world war one. When surveyed, the class seemed to be of the consensus that they had no idea who he was. With this feedback, I moved forward on the speech believing a topic

The decisions I made as I created my informative speech was to determine who I was speaking to. My audience in this scenario was my instructor. I was given a topic of specifically doing an informative speech. I was then able to determine what presentation to use. I then, needed to create a delivery outline for my speech.

This informational speech, in contrast with my shield speech, was a nightmare. It is exponentially harder to give a speech about a specific topic than one about yourself. That’s another area where I went wrong. The first one went so well, mostly because on the off chance that I would forget anything, I couldn’t just pull something else magically from the back of my head. Nothing was waiting, because I only researched what was absolutely necessary. Even then, the information wasn’t hammered into my mind with the same concreteness as the shield speech was. When I got up there, I felt fine. Then I made a mistake.

Luckily, I was able to perform my entire speech around five to six minutes which was a goal I had struggled to obtain in practice. To hasten my speech, I had to talk a lot faster and remove a lot of specific information from my speech. Despite it being a success, some people thought I talked to fast during my presentation which could have been true. All in all, my speech topic was well fitted to the role and was inspired by my personal experiences.