Speech Reflection

My informative speech was on Jazz. The main topics I discussed in my presentation were the history of Jazz, the “Jazz Age”, and about Louis Armstrong. To begin this evaluation, I did poorly on this speech because I had my set of index card that had a lot of information, but instead of taking those index cards, I took one with less information and that’s what made me nervous during my presentation. I Think I need to make improvements on my posture, timing, and project my voice for everyone could be able to hear me. The reason I wrote these three things for improvement because I felt I was slouching and not projecting my voice as much.

Within my role I sometimes had to do public speaking which I had to address a group of people and as we already know this is another form of verbal communication. I always ensure I am well prepared and organised for an effective speech. I do strongly believe In public speaking, my speech must be prepared according to the type of audience I are going to face. The content of my speech should be authentic and I must have enough

Most textbooks go on at length here regarding spatial, versus logical, versus chronological patterns of organization. I generally just teach Plato’s “clever butcher” analogy. Plato said that a clumsy butcher takes a chicken and hacks it all to pieces; makes a mess of the whole thing. A clever butcher, on the other hand, realizes that the chicken has natural divisions, called joints, and uses those to cleanly divide the chicken. So, when organizing a speech, I just tell my students

The way you present a speech has a monumental effect on the way your audience will understand it. The tone of your voice, your body language, the words you say, and it all happens on how you feel about the subject you writing, or speaking. Your speech is centered on your point of view, your perspective of the subject you are learning about. You can feel delighted, disgust, furious, mournful, any emotion can become a part of you speech.

According to Peter Doolittle's Ted Talk working memory is limited. There is only so much our working memory can take away from the information we learn. This is why it is important for me to construct my speech in such a way that it helps keep my audience engaged and leaves them remembering the topic long after my speech is over. I could do this in a couple different ways. I plan on engaging my audience by sharing a story connected to the topic early on to make it personal to the audience and keep their attention on the topic throughout the speech. Besides telling a story I will arrange my main points into clear patterns that help my audience follow my speech easily. This means I will make sure my main points are easily understood by the audience.

I have given quite a few speeches in the last few years, even at such a young age. Though I was proficient when I started this class, I have improved even more in these last six weeks. My strengths definitely fall in my organization and content. However in my delivery I often lack in vocal variety and volume, mostly due to nerves, and I often rushing my conclusions. Due to the rank I have in organizations like the National Honor Society, I will often have to speak in public or address my peers so I plan on continuing to practice for my speeches out loud and hopefully I will improve.

For the informative speech, my group presented the issue of the Emerald Ash Borer. In my speech, I presented the positions of the University of Maine and Forestry Department. These were the two major positions in the speech. For my speech, I did stumble a lot, however, it was hidden by the short pauses I made throughout the speech. Also, I need better eye contact throughout the speech. My speech primarily appealed to ethos and logos, citing specific examples and presenting long qualifications.

The general use of organization in a speech is to select a structure for your speech that makes your

I was able to sit with Melissa Seyfried on Thursday and Friday and was amazed on what the advance schedules have to go thru. I wanted to express my appreciation for allowing me to shadow and understand more into HOD.

I have shown huge improvements on delivering speeches. This process helped me to understand different kinds of speech and their expectations. The only way I can think of improving is that to get myself be confortable and to do more preparations. Therefore, the mistakes I made in this will help me to improve on the next

When giving a speech it is handy to have a list of key concepts with you that you want to get across to your audience. Writing out your whole speech will not do. Writing out your full speech may cause you to have your head buried in your notes for your entire

Speeches are a lot like a baseball game, even when many aspects of your speech are on point one bad facet can give the whole thing a sour feel. Despite this, the more you try to worry and make everything perfect the more you screw up. If you pay attention to the bare bones of your speech though, that’s when they really begin to shine. It was this conclusion that lead Stephen Keague to say, “In presentations or speeches less really is more.” The flow of ideas may be constricted when writing a good speech, but it really is an art, and the benefits of writing a good speech are far

It's something that I definitely noticed while giving the speech since I barely made the time minimum compared to when I practiced where I was at over four minutes. My introduction started off pretty solid but I fumbled a bit when I had to look at my notecard but i continued undeterred. I feel like I need some more transitions. The ones that I had were good, but there wasn't really any sort of transition from my expression of the values of the audiences to the values of my nominee. It wasn't anything major, but I was aware of it going in and so I can't not talk about it. My vocal fillers were almost nonexistent. Even when I had to look at my notecard to find my place I did not try to fill the silence with an “uh” or “um”. My volume was fine. The real glaring problem to me was that I did a sort of shuffle. I am not sure if this is because that is something that I tend to do or if it was because I was pacing while practicing my speech. I felt that my diction was appropriate for my topic and understandable. There were a few times where I instinctively combined two different phrases that I used on different attempts into one combined phrase that didn't really work out very well. An example of this is when I combined the phrase “on the earth” and “in the world” and got the phrase “on the world” and had to correct

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.

Towards the end of the second paragraph, I incorporated my first rhetorical strategy. I used foreshadowing when I stated, "As we approached the first RV park, I felt a lump in my throat and sick to my stomach. Looking back, I realize that the promise was kept, I truly did grow as a person," (Singh 1). Foreshadowing is meant to convey or hint a larger event that occurs later in the text and/or story. I used foreshadowing because, for me, that first RV park symbolized a barrier. That is, it symbolized me breaking out of my comfort zone. It also symbolized the first time that I experience a level of pressure during the trip. The use of foreshadowing allowed me to describe my seemingly intuitive apprehension to the journey. I felt that the use of this rhetorical device would be most effective at the end of the second paragraph because of the way in which I organized my speech. I broke up my experience on the RV into three parts that were separated into three paragraphs. Furthermore, the speech was written to follow the chronological order of events. I felt that using the rhetorical device there would artfully convey my fear and apprehension in the early stages of the trip. Using the device early in the speech allowed me to prove my gut-wrenching intuition correct later in the story. A challenge that I faced early on with the use of this device was how to truly show my audience how I felt. How do you describe a feeling like that? How do you even show people a feeling without