Summary Of Cognitive Desensitiation

There is no question that after giving about four speeches, I have become a much better overall public speaker. In the beginning of the semester, I would tend to get nervous during some of my speeches and consequently the delivery of my speech would be greatly affected. If I had made a mistake, my level of nervousness would drastically increase and I wouldn’t know how to correct it. Although today I have improved on these aspects. Normally in order to control my nerves I try to think as positively as possible. This is critical because when I start to think even a little bit negatively then I severely hurt my chances of giving a good speech. Instead today, my main priority is to stay very confident and tell myself that I’m going to perform fine.

I did a lot of preparation before my actual speech. First, I planned the outline several times and made many changes to it. Then, I would look at myself in a mirror, and started talking about the topic. I simply divided the speech into three parts during my preparation; intro, instruction on how to set up a skateboard and conclusion. I practiced each part several times, and I would try to present the whole speech again and again. Also, I presented the speech to my

As an overview of my speech, I didn’t put enough effort on my speech that I would liked to have done. After finishing my outline I only look at my paper a few times just going over what I would be saying for my speech. The reason that I didn’t spend too much time practicing with my speech was because I was very busy where as my other classes are demanding when it comes to time manages meant. As a result for not practicing, I have notice a huge difference on my second speech in comparison to my first. Whereas my first speech I had spent the proper amount of time going over the material and practicing my rehearsal with my girlfriend (Cassie). Conversely to my first speech I felt confident on what I wanted to talk about, but one huge difference was that I didn’t practice my rehearsal. As a result of not putting the time to practice my speed I had verbal clutter and not being

This really helped me to find my confidence and taught me how to get rid of the nerves that comes with public speaking. There is always room to improve and through the speech classes I took throughout high school I feel like I improved in my speaking skills. One of my strengths is being good at preparation. Preparation is a very important factor in making a good speech. Knowing your audience, your topic, and knowing how to organize a speech properly is something I find to be a strength. Another strength of mine that I previously stated is knowing how to get through any nerves that I have. My weaknesses of public speaking include my newly developed stutter, talking too fast, and not speaking super clearly. With speeches I am much better at putting the speech together rather than actually giving

To prepare for my shield speech I had my dad help me by painting my shield. However, for the actual speech I made my outline and then made my note cards. One thing I did was practice going over my cards a couple of times for my dog the night before my speech was due. The next time I practiced my speech was the period before I gave it during study hall. When I was in front of the class before I gave my speech I was very nervous, and could feel my face starting to get red and my hands were starting to get shaky. I knew that I was going to get super nervous in front of the class because that's how I always get for speeches. According to knowing that I would be nervous, while I was giving my speech, I could feel myself starting to sweat and get

I procrastinated a lot on my shield speech, and I went first, so I didn't have as much time to prepare as I did with my informative speech. I prepared early for this speech and performed in the middle of our class. In this speech, I was better at planning what I had to say because I wrote out a paper beforehand, and that helped.

This time around during the advocacy speeches I was a lot less nervous. It might have been because I have gotten so used to speaking in front of a specific group of people. I’m familiar with them and also the ways that they give speeches. Also preparing for the speech was not as much work as the previous assignments. Since I had previously did most of the research when preparing for the background speech, it wasn’t as time consuming. The only thing to do was pick a specific topic and give my viewpoint on it. I am very opinionated so it was easy to create a script on something that I am so passionate about. I feel as if I have learned a lot about public speaking from watching the different approaches that various people had taken.

In is article, the authors researched that a fundamental speech course can decrease a student’s public speaking anxiety. Reducing student’s public speaking anxiety is appropriate in a college speech class because it will improve personal development and help with the student’s employment chances later. By implementing public speaking anxiety treatments into speech courses such as positive reinforcement and constructive criticism from other classmates can reduce anxiety. Also, by starting out with simple speeches and progressing into more difficult ones anxiety can be decreased. In using this simple treatments public speaking anxiety can be greatly reduced resulting in ease in communication in a public

The one “pattern” that I would like to change is becoming better at public speaking. I have always been bad at giving presentations or speeches, but I never made the effort to identify the problem and improve upon it. Last semester I had to give my first presentation in a college class and once again I had a complete brain freeze. Before the presentation, I kept telling myself that it’s going to be easy as long as I am not the first person to present. Everything went to my according to my plan and most of my classmates presented before me. Although most of my classmates looked nervous and anxious like me, once their turn came up to present they comfortably spoke up for the required 5 minutes. I was surprised that nobody really froze up and it gave me the confidence to go up and do the same. However once again when my turn came up to present I went completely blank. My voice was shaking and I kept repeating my words. This was another embarrassing experience for me because all of my classmates presented smoothly. I ended up only speaking for only 2 minutes instead of the required 5 minutes. This affected my grade because I only got half

In relation to my preparation for the presentation, I practiced multiple times on my own as well as in front of my peers in order to be familiar with my content and be able to present confidently without stuttering. As a result, I felt

My speech seemed to be going well in my opinion until I saw the five-minute mark and I was only half way through my second point. I still had my entire third point and the conclusion. When I reached the six-minute mark, I was finishing up my second point. I am surprised Mr. Stauffer let me finish the speech. I ended the speech at eight minutes and twenty-four seconds, the time keeper kept the stop-watch going to see what I would end at. The only thing I did to prepare was make my visual aid and write my outline. Other than that I did nothing to prepare for my speech. When I got in front of the room I instantly thought, "Oh crap, I am not ready for this." Then I just started to go with it. When it came time to reveal the pictures on my visual

For as long as I can remember, public speaking has always been one of my greatest weaknesses. Whether it’s a simple in-class presentation or a speech in front of an auditorium filled with people, I can barely get my words out from the anxiety and

As I look out into the class, my stomach immediately drops. Every single one of them was staring at me. Like drones with heavy eyes, waiting for this to be over. Quickly, my eyes dart back down to the note card I am holding in my shaking hand. The few notes I had written were sloppy and I can barely read them. I hadn't had much time to prepare which only added to my already high stress level when it comes to public speaking. I opened my mouth to begin my speech, but I struggled to find my voice. Closing my mouth, embarrassed, I quietly attempted to clear my voice and start again. Although this time sound did escape my mouth, it was a jumbled mess. I hadn't even made it through two sentences and I had already used “like”, “um” and “and” about 20 times each.

This class was not my first time speaking towards an audience. In high school, I was a part of a program called falcon friends. The point of this club was to make an impact on younger students. We traveled to the middle schools that fed into our high school to discuss different topics that can help you prepare for high school and we also did a seminar on bullying. The teacher in charge of the club wanted us to be prepared to speak in front of middle schoolers. The way he had us prepare was he made each of us write a speech on who we are and to give that speech to the entire club. The point was to give us a starting point on how we would react when talking in front of middle school children. When I gave this speech, I was really nervous and quite. We were able to stand behind a podium and read off a paper, but it didn’t help my nerves. From there I got much better at talking in front of an audience the more I did it. I was actually more surprised that I was so nervous since at this point I had been dancing for ten years in front of one hundred plus people. The most confident I have been in this club was when I had to give a speech on cyberbullying during my last year in this program. I think my confidence came from the fact that this was not my first time speaking in front of an audience and also that I had already given a speech previously to the same middle school children in the same auditoriums a few months previously. The microphone I was given also helped so I did not have to worry about projecting my voice as much. This club helped me prepare for public speaking without me realizing it.

Another goal to improve on is audience-based apprehension. I get scared in front of people that I know because if I said something wrong during a presentation, I don’t want them laughing at me. When I was making that break down during football, my voice cracked and everyone started