Speech Reflection Paper

organizing the body of the speech; more specifically, the use of main points, supporting points,

Eye contact is an important factor as this engages the audience, keeping them focused on what you are discussing. By making eye contact you are directing your conversation at that specific person, demonstrating that you are devoting your time and are not able to be distracted as if you would by looking around.

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.

My visual aid was the strongest part about my speech. I brought in the ingredients to make Tiramisu to show which brands I like to use for the recipe. I also prepared Tiramisu for the class as my hold interest technique. To relate the topic to the audience, I told them that they could make this recipe when they want to impress someone. My credibility was also convincing as I informed the class I had researched and compiled the best recipe. My introduction in general was concise and convinced the audience pay attention to the rest of my speech. I also thought my tone was conversational and not too formal.

Paul Keating’s speech ‘funeral service of the unknown Australian soldier’ and Noel Pearson’s speech ‘an Australian history for us all’ have developed and expressed ideas using language appropriate to their audience, purpose and form. Despite the fact, it is fundamentally the speaker’s skills in the construction of the speech that determine its decisive success.

Throughout the speech, the speaker used nonverbal communication many of times. To begin, he was constantly using his hands as he spoke to place emphasis on what he was saying and draw the listener in. Further, his entire body moved as he spoke which shows the listener that he is interested and engaged in what he is speaking about. Finally, as stated above, direct eye contact was not lacking in this speech which gives the listener the feeling that not only is the speaker interested in what he is talking about but that they should listen to him because he is powerful and knowledgeable in this area. Overall, nonverbal communication was of quality but I would

Speaker 1: The speaker was able to sum up the major points of the presentation in her conclusion at the end, which made the main points clear to the audience. During the presentation, however, she often struggled to not get too detailed in her explanation as she read a lot of extra, unnecessary information from her notes. Her heavy reliance on notes made her seem not as knowledgeable about the material.

My speech on Letchworth State Park went well. There were some positives and negatives in making my speech as effective as possible. I felt pretty comfortable because I practiced my speech multiple times with friends. I made sure they videotaped me to see what mistakes I might make. Practicing my speech made feel more comfortable, and I believe made for a clearer message.

A lot of people struggle within speech communities because after high school some people don’t go to college so they never progress their speech skills. When a person doesn’t progress like there friends they might be embarrassed that they don’t understand or is just complained confused what their friends are saying. Struggling within a speech community is not abnormal a lot of people go through a phase like that but they usually find someone to help them through the phase. If you’re struggling through a speech community just find a tutor or an English teacher or even a friend to help you transition through to the next speech community in your life.

My eye contact was bettered tenfold! When looking at the grades I made for the two speeches, you can see the improvement- my Visual Directness grade for the previous speech was an eight, while my grade for the How-To Speech was a nine. While that is good, I still have plenty of room for improvement. There were so many instances when I was paying more attention to my visual aid than my audience- in fact, I noticed that when I got nervous, I would direct my attention to the paper I was working with, instead of looking at my audience. While this allowed me to regain my composure, it also I will just have to work on that next

Visual aids are good however you need to be caucuses. The visuals you use during your speech need to support what you’re saying. The titles on the slide should reflect what the speech is about, avoid showing a slide that has too much information on one slide, it makes it hard to read and too much information to process. Do not read the slides use them to as a reference for you to talk about them, ensure you have a good contrast between your font and the slide background and remember when showing slides remember that color show feelings and use can use this to help persuade or motivate for example green is good and red is bad.

In presentation, the speaker is the only person who communicates to the audience. If the speaker lacks the ability to present effectively, the audience will likely lost focus and the whole presentation becomes a waste of time.

An explanatory speech might give a description of the state of a given topic. The speaker might use visual representation of the particular data or statistics. A demonstration speech explains how to do something. Visualization is the key, on how-to speeches using visual examples that show the audience how to move from step to step through a particular activity.

First, we talked about what we did in the summer, in order to establish a good base point at where we are and to see how well we are with speaking in front of a group. I’ll be starting off saying some of the things I believe I did well, I was loud so the whole class could hear me it's not hard to hear me in the video so that is why I believe I was loud. Also, I had emotion when I was speaking and was clear so you could understand me, when you watch the video you can see them both that I did them well. Next, I’ll talk about the things I didn't do so well, the biggest thing I did wrong would be reading off the note card. When watching the video you can clearly see i’m reading directly from the card therefore I had no eye contact either. I also swayed from side to side, and stuttering sometimes. I am really surprised to see the stuttering and swaying I didn’t notice I was doing that tell I seen the video. That is the first presentation we accomplished and was definitely not the best.

Good morning/afternoon members of the board from Penguin. I am here today to convince you why the three texts Dear Mr President by Pink, Magnanimous In Victory by Tim Collins and Nelson Mandela release speech deserve to be in your new book “ Protests that changed the world”.