Speech : The Persuasive Speech

My informative speech was over the television series Grey's Anatomy. To prepare for my speech, I spent more time rehearsing than I did for my S.H.I.E.L.D. Speech. I am not sure how I feel about how my Informative Speech went. I felt very prepared for the speech, and I knew a lot about what I was talking about. I was confident in the information I had found. Although this is all true, when I was up in front of the audience, I was nervous. Really nervous. My hands were shaking the whole speech, and my voice felt shaky and unconfident. I do not get it, I do not know how I could feel as confident as I did before the speech and end up feeling like that while presenting.

During the presentation, I was nervous and was jumping around a lot (according to other classmates). I think I spoke loud enough and I memorized the proceure and materials, but not all of the conclusion

My preparation for my speech was simple. First, I used the method of cognitive restructuring, which “transforms negative self-talk into positive self-talk (Schwartzman, 2014, pg. 37). I used positive self-talk and a positive self-concept of myself to help boost my confidence for giving my speech. I also used systematic desensitization to reduce communication apprehension, which describes the feeling of anxiety about oral communication with others, according to Schwartzman (2014), to harness my nervousness and anxiety about presenting the speech in front of an audience (pg. 35). In addition to this, I rehearsed my introductory speech several times to make sure I was ready to present in front of my class and used the concept of visualization

I don’t think that I did so well during this last presentation. I did a lot of research about the drone I was talking about and I knew what I was going to say about the product. When I got up there I realized I didn’t know it as well as I thought I was going to. I should have put more practice into my presentation. I felt like I practiced but it was all in my mind. I never really put my PowerPoint up and practiced it in front of someone. When I got up and started my presentation, I went through my attention getter and when I took my eyes off of my cards I never really knew what I was going to say next. It was a lack of practice. To prepare for my presentation. I did a lot of research about the drone the

When I gave my speech, I felt confident. I don't exactly have a fear of public speaking- anyone who knows me could tell you that. I looked out to the entire audience for the entire speech because I didn't use note cards. I also kept my energy up throughout the speech which helped keep the audience focused on the speech. I made some jokes, and the audience laughed at most of them, which was a good feeling. But because I failed to fully memorize the speech, there were times that I was left trying to figure out the exact phrasing, which took away from the performance slightly, even though I don't believe it was that big of a deal. I also made a pun by ending my speech with "My speech is all ogre now" and very few people caught it. This was probably due to my poor

For both of my two previous speeches I was able to add a little insight from myself and give my own thoughts and opinions. I was restricted from doing any of my own ideas for the informative speech. I had to show the audience that I was not being basis and I wanted them to believe what I believed. One of my biggest flaw in the informative speech was that I provided a little too much information to the audience and in doing that I exceeded my time range. The second flaw I had was during my speech, there was a lot of distraction in the audience and that threw me off. I was not able to focus on what I was presentation and that caused me to be a little forgetful and I started to stutter. I received an end grade of B- which to me was the worst thing imaginable. Rather than being angry of the fact that I didn’t do as well as I hoped, I took those comments and advice and better myself for the last

it all in the presentation I was very nervous and talked fast. I am afraid that it didn’t go as well.

Right before, I wanted to cry. I hate getting up in front of everyone and being forced to speak. I actually did cry, just a little, but calmed myself down enough to stand up in front of everyone and share a little more about me. My face might not have showed it at all, but I know that my voice, and the possible shaking of my hands, let everyone watching and listening to my speech know that I was absolutely terrified to be up there. My stomach was churning, my heart was racing, I began to feel flushed and a little overheated, and it was a little hard for me to breathe. Having to look out at everyone, looking people in the eye, I felt like I was going to throw up again. I pushed through my speech, trying to explain as much as I could as possible, and though I went over the time limit, I thought I had done pretty

The rest of my speech went equally as horribly and to say I was relieved when it was over would be a major understatement. Shamefully, walking back to my seat I started to beat myself up about everything that I had done wrong. From the moment the bell rang for class to start and Mrs. Pearlman had told us today was the day for impromptu speeches I had been nervous. We were only given 10 minutes to prepare for a five minute speech on our biggest pet peeves. I had known that we would have to do this eventually, but of course I convinced myself to think that the day

With this speech I was able to conquer many factors such as letting my words coming out in a voice tone the way I intended it to be. I was able to deliver my main points just like I practiced. I was able to create an outline according to what I expected to deliver to my audience. However, once again I allowed my nervousness to get a little bit of my power and confidence. Because of my anxiety I did not create a true connection with my listeners (classmates). I recognize that I fail in keeping a good eye contact with my classmates. Also, I have to work better with the pausing between my sentences to emphasize my points more effectively. Additionally, I failed in explaining some details to make couple of my points more clear, but inside of me I feel proud of myself for such a nice beginning. Even though I have to relax a little more, trust more in myself, and set aside all the thoughts that interfere with my success during my presentation, I am excited about this experience.

Throughout the years ,I’ve experienced various times when I’ve had to speak in front of others and sometime the results were better than others. One of the first times, I can remember speaking in front of my class was in sixth grade for a project about different counties in Arkansas. I was assigned a small county I had never even heard of before but after a little research I found out some interesting facts about the county that fascinated me. This caused me to be very involved and proud of my work. When it came time to present my speech I was very prepared and excited to share what I had found out. Through my experience I have learned that being proud of what you are saying or the work you put into the assignment affects how

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Among the many rights granted to Americans in the Constitution, the right to Free Speech has caused many disputes. This right is highly valuable to United States citizens, but it can raise some complications when it comes to a school environment, where it may not be appropriate to convey every single idea or opinion. One such complication arose when two students enrolled in Homewood High school in Chicago, arrived to school in unapproved uniform to express their sentiment toward recent events in the country. After being suspended for refusing to remove the attire, the students filed a lawsuit against the school district arguing that their suspension violated their First Amendment freedoms. According to precedents set by Tinker v. Des Moines, Gillman v. School Board for Holmes County, and Isaacs v. Board of Education, the outcome of the case of Washington and Shultz should be in the plaintiff’s favor.

Imagine you’ve saved your allowance to buy a basketball. Then, you take said basketball, go to the park, and everybody at the park uses your basketball, but they don't let you play in the game with them. Everyone is just out there scoring with your basketball, passing it around, laughing and treating it as if they own it. These people don't even let you shoot on the opposite end with an old raggedy basketball that they’ve abused; you just have to watch these motherfuckers. But those are the rules or “the way things are done,” so you’re told to respect it and wait your turn, but by the time it’s your turn, it’s starting to get dark out and nobody wants to play anymore. So, now you’re walking home staring at your once new basketball with an empty park as your backdrop and you're pissed, but you learned your lesson.

I believe I improved on giving speeches by being able to interact with my audience. By giving my audience something to actually enjoy and want to pay attention too. I believe it also went well because no one else did a topic like mine. I still have things to work on such as finding ways to dress more nice even though I'm not comfortable enough to wear those outfits. I also need to work on making eye contact with everyone on the left side of the room and lastly, I will work towards speaking and not looking towards the smart board so my voice can only project towards my audience and not onto the