self evaluation

For my last speech, my topic was healthy teeth and my goal was to motivate my audience to keep their teeth healthy. I think I achieved my purpose fairly well. I explained almost everything there is to keeping your teeth healthy and how to avoid them. As well as what the consequences were. Since I presented my speech in front the teacher, I felt more comfortable. I wouldn’t say I was all that confident because I am never too confident when giving a speech because I feel like my audience is always criticizing my speech.

If I had to do my speech all over again, I would definitely change the way I put things together. I felt that it was fairly unorganized and could have been better. Also another thing is I should have put more statistics to help my speech more believable not that it wasn’t. I prepared for my speech a lot this time because I knew it was my last and had to receive a good grade. I think it paid off in the end. My delivery was alright, but I caught myself repeating myself a lot and I wish I would have changed that.

The difference from my last speech has to be my eye contact as well as better preparation. I did prepare for my last speech but not as much as I did for my final speech. I practiced my final speech over and over until I got sick of it. I even presented in front my friends to feel more confident about myself. My eye contact was much better than my last speech for sure. I felt that I was speaking from the heart when I was giving my speech last week. I knew what I was talking about barely looked at my note card. Just so I could avoid reading off my note card, I only wrote in key words that I would have to remember instead of writing down full sentences where I could just read it off.

I believe I improved a lot from my last two speeches. I have learned a lot during the past month because I have been reading a lot of the materials in the book. If I had to rate my eye contact I would have to say a 7 or an 8 out of 10 because I made sure kept my eyes out to the audience and not so much on my note cards. I used about 3 citations in my speech. Two from an internet source and one from an article.

From the three speeches I have presented in this class, I am going to say that I performed my last one the best. Even though I thought the second one was my all time favorite, I believe I presented the last one the best because I learned from my first and second speeches. From my first speech, I learned to have better eye contact and to read less on my note card. From my second speech, I learned to expand on my topic. To talk in more details and to give more trustworthy facts. Overall, I believe I progressively got better and public speaking as the days went by.

favorite speech

my favorite speech had to be the informative speech because of my topic. since my topic was about fraternity, i knew a lot about it since i am in one. it gave me a chance to express my ideals of a fraternity and inform my audience my ideals of a fraternity. the first speech as well as the last one was not as fun as the 2nd one i did because i really had no interest in those topics. for my first speech, i was pretty much forced to pick origami because the topic i wanted was already taken so i had to choose in a short amount of time. i had to do more research on my first speech than any of my other speech. i guess thats a good thing but by far my favorite really has to be the informative. also, it felt good informing the audience about fraternity even though i could not actually inform them about MY fraternity. it was really fun and i enjoyed it the most. the last one was cool too because i thought it was really informational and that everyone needed to keep their teeth healthy. but once again, the informative was the best.

most helpful

there were a lot of concepts in this class that helped me prepare for speeches in the near future. one concept that was very helpful has to be the outline. building up an outline not only helps you get organized but helps you expand your options. what i mean is that by creating an outline, you discover more than what you expect. you keep breaking your topic down and by the end of it, you are left with so many things to talk about making your speech more effective. another thing i thought that was very useful was attention getter. not really thought to add that into a speech. by watching all those speech buddy videos, i definitely agree that the attention getter works well. getting your audience's attention as your first impression really helps them relate to your topic instead of just starting your speech off with random facts. before i took this class, i usually just wing it. i dont practice or write helpful words on notecards to help me with my speech. now that i have done three speeches where i prepared for them, i think i will take in all of these tips for my future speeches and have no problem with them.

videos

So after watching the interactive videos, I learned how to use a good argument speech. Argument speeches have 4 basic elements, thesis, claim, evidence and reasoning. I have always thought an argument speech just needed a thesis and the claim to persuade your audience but after watching the video, all 4 of the basic elements are very useful and they all should be used. The thesis is of course the most important one because the thesis pretty much explains what your going to be talking about. The thesis should be very clear to the audience so that they know what your going to be talking about in your speech. Same with the evidence, the more evidence I have the more believable my topic will be. In the other two videos, I learned the pro’s and con’s of an argument speech. Let me just say, that Dixie gave a phenomenal speech. I really enjoyed her speech because her claim was very good and the way she presented it.

persuasion

so i work for the HP pavilion here in San jose. i am part of the marketing team where i have to go out and pretty much advertise for any events that are going on at the HP pavilion. mostly what i have to do is go to stores and persuade them into letting me hang a poster on their window. i know it sounds really easy but its really not. i have to first introduce myself so i dont look like an idiot looking like im selling something and then tell them what this is all about. so what i have to do is pretty much sell my idea that by letting me hang this poster up, the store is helping themselves and the HP pavilion bring in more customers. for example, sharks! almost everyone in san jose are sharks fan and when they see a poster of "the sharks territory" they are happy.

speech

my main points for my next speech are the problem of healthy teeth, why most of us have unhealthy teeth, the solution that many of us are sticking too to have healthier teeth and what you can do to start taking care of your teeth from my opinions. of course i begin on giving my speech by using an attention getter. the way im going to get my audience's attention is by using statistics that i am going to provide. with my attention getter, i believe i can get the audience's attention really good. my attention getter is going pretty much make everyone realize their unhealthy teeth. my statistics will help everyone realize the facts about unhealthy teeth. i think everyone needs to realize and hopefully my speech will motivate people to start taking better care of their teeth.

sea of persuasion

So, I noticed, I am always immersed in a sea of persuasion. Im always being persuade to do something 24/7 and not really noticing it until now. For example, my friends always persuade me to go out to eat with them when I don’t really want to. They will tell me reasons that aren’t even relevant to eating to persuade me and it works. Another example would be those online advertisements where your forced to play some sort of game to win a prize. Even when im doing something important I am always persuaded into playing the game. So what I think I can do to become a more critical consumer or persuasive messages is understand what the situation is better. Since I am persuaded into a lot of things all the time, i think to persuade someone is to get deep into their skin and find that flip that switch so that person can understand what your talking about. I guess a lot of us are immersed in a sea of persuasion and don’t even know it.