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.

flickr

so reading the little description on flickr, i dont really agree with it because i dont think calling someone a different name when they really are one, sexist. for example, when a female is a grown woman and you call them a girl, they should not get offensive because its just a name, a title and not what they are. for example, in high school, i told a girl that she was a girl and stated that she was a woman and got really mad at me. calling me sexist and all that. in the book, it talks about how people take words personally. so in a speech, i guess what you say can really affect someone and how they perceive ideas.

ch. 10 ch 12

so in chapter 10, i pretty much learned a lot of the same stuff i learned from watching the interactive videos. tips such as audience-centered language. the tips that were given were things like putting your language in context by mentioning the location, reffering to current events, and responding to what happens during the speech. all these topics are great to use in speeches because it gets the audience's attention real fast. something you can relate to and using current events does open up their eyes to connect with the speech. also using we, us, you and i will also get their attention because the presenter is referring to the audience or whoever and this catches their attention. in chapter 11, it talks about presentation media. in the book it explains why we use them. draw attention to your topic. illustrate an idea that cant be fully described by words alone. stimulate an emotional reaction. clarify a key point. support your argument with a graphical display of facts and firures. help your audience rememeber your main ideas. all of these reason's are the reasons i use a powerpoint presentation and it seems to work. Also in this chapter, shows you a lot more media presentation that can be used durring a speech.

interactive videos

I learned a lot by watching all of the interactive videos. A lot of advice was given and planning on using them for my next speech of course. To deliver a good speech I learned you need to use humor, meaningful words, concise, voice and the 5 aspects of physical delivery. Using humor is always good during a speech but the video said to be careful when using humor and not to over do it. Meaningful words to get the audience more involved are very helpful as well. So your voice needs to have a good volume, pitch, pace and variety to deliver a solid speech. As shown in the video, the volume really needs to be at a good level for the audience to connect with you. If you’re dull and quiet, then the audience can’t really connect with you. The pace needs to be at a steady pace, not quick because the audience can mishear your speech. The 5 aspects of physical delivery are eye contact, facial expressions, gestures and body motion. All of these aspects are very important when giving your speech and I learned that I really need to work on all of these. I learned a lot from these videos and I will use all of these tips on my next speech.

ch. 11

so in chapter 11, what i found useful was the presentation tips that it gave me. tips such as, what a visual aid should look like and what it should hold. the tips that was provided by the book, were things like the different types of visual aids, special things that it should hold and to limit yourself in the visual aid itself. the different types of visual aids i could use are slides off a projector, or even using the white board. Ive always found that slides work the best considering that you have already prepared what is going to be presented and had some time to clean it up. another good tip i found useful was limiting myself in the visual aid. when it comes to using slides off the projector, i really dont put much description on the slides because im already talking about my topic. when creating my visual aid, i like to use pictures to present my topic so that my audience can have an image in their heads of what im talking about. for example, my last speech was on fraternity and i was talking about hazing. people who dont really know what hazing is and i was just talking about it, they can look at my slides to have a picture of what hazing is. i really think that slides off a projector is the best way to present your speech.

2nd speech

I gave my speech to my fraternity brothers during our chapter meeting on Monday. What I did differently was that I tried to focus on my audience more than my note card and the way I did this is I took a lot off the note card itself. I removed the details and just had main points. In my speech on Friday, I had a lot of detailed notes written down on my note card therefore I felt very comfortable just reading off it. But since this time I barely had anything, I had to talk with my own knowledge. I think I improved from my previous speech. I definitely had more confident as well as more eye contact because I knew that is what I had to improve on. So if I had to do this speech again, I think I would have added more information into my speech because I noticed while giving this speech, I wanted to say a lot more things. The feedback I got from the Friday class improved my speech. I got a lot that said to have better eye contact, as well as less reading off of note card. I took that into consideration and attempted to present the speech to my fraternity brothers without it. This exercise was useful and really helped me improve.

self evaluation

In my second speech, I think I did a lot better than my first speech but still noticed a lot more improvement was needed. I was more comfortable giving my second speech more than my first because it was something I truly was interested in. my topic was on fraternity and my whole college life has revolved around it as well, therefore I was comfortable. When giving this speech, I noticed a lot of things I did wrong, although I thought it was better than the first. One thing I noticed was the information given to the audience. Don’t get me wrong, all the information I presented was true and hopefully informational but I know I could have said a lot more things to make my presentation better.

During my speech, I felt more confident than before. I knew what I was talking about and this wouldn’t be the first time giving a speech. I did notice that I was rushing my speech a bit too fast but I believe the transition was very smooth. But if I had to do this all over again, I definitely would have practiced in front of an audience first. This time I really did practice this speech a lot but never put it into action with an audience. Made it difficult for me to adjust to the different settings.

For my next speech, I know there is a lot of things I still need to improve and one thing that would be to read less off of my note cards. I noticed right away that I was staring way too much to my notes rather than my audience. There were times where I caught myself and glanced up but I think I really need to not rely on my notes as much. I think I would rate my eye contact a 5 out of 10. Another thing I would like to improve is my delivery. I want to catch my audience’s attention better in the beginning. For that I have would have to put myself in their shoes and relate to that. Something that was different from my previous speech was my personal example and how I related my topic to my personal life. Like I said, this speech was easier than the first one because of how the topic really revolves around my life.

So on a scale from A to F, I think I deserve a B because this speech was an informative speech and I believe I definitely informed my audience about fraternities. I used personal example to help my audience relate it as well. Being the same age as my audience, really helped them relate to my topic and therefore I believe the audience really understood my topic. I didn’t really mention and source citations in my speech. I should have and I really don’t know why I didn’t.

In this speech, I think that I did fairly better than my previous one because of the preparation and the knowledge of my speech. I practiced and practiced my speech over and over again. This topic was a fun topic to give a speech on because I can really relate my college life to it and I really enjoyed informing other students about fraternities.

beginning and the ending

so of course the begginning of the speech must be flawless to get the aduiences attention. according to the book, im right. haha you need to get your adueiences attention which will be the attention grabber. the attention grabber usually is something that stands out, something that the audience is not ready for. for example, your doing a speech oh fraternity. my attention grabber would be, HAZING, what is the first word that comes into your mind? something that will get the audiences attention is an attention getter.

developing your introduction. what you want to say in your introduction is pretty much introduce what your gonna say in your speech. first start off with a breif introduction of what your going to be talking about in your speech, then go into the purpose of this speech. another good thing to add in your speech is a preview of your main points, as written in the book. This will probably be in your introduction as well.

Now, developing your conclusion. Of course you want to review your main points in this too. That is probably the most important part in a conclusion. A review of the main points. To end your speech, it also needs to be flawless, you got to leave your audience with a great ending.

facts and statistics

so facts and statistics... i believe they are very useful in an persuasive speech, this is true because to persuade someone to do something, you need facts and statistics to convince someone that something may be true. for example, pretend your giving a speech on how to prevent drunk driving. the only way to persuade someone is to hit them with the facts and statistics. saying that drunk driving is one of the leading causes of death and more than 10,000 people have died because of drunk driving.

im not real sure what type of speech would not be good for facts and statistics. facts and statistics seems to be great in any type of speeches. out of all the speeches, the persuasive speech fits the best because, well as i stated above, to convince someone. i think in all my speeches for the future, i will be using a lot of facts and statistics because this will help my audience connect with my speech better.

self evaluation

Walking into my COMM 20 class where I had to give a 5 minutes speech in front of everyone was very nerve racking. I was trying to be as confident as possible before and during the speech so that my speech will go very smoothly. Unfortunately, my nervousness was building up as it came closer and closer for me to go up and give me speech. It was my turn soon enough and I tried to stay calm as possible but I couldn’t. I went up in front of the class and took a deep breathe and looked up into my audience. This was it, I had to overcome my fear. My hands were sweaty, my heart was beating ridiculously fast and I couldn’t even recognize my voice. The one thing that was going through my mind was that I just needed to get this over with so just hurry up. When I finished, I knew my speech was not as I have planned. Things I could have improved were eye contact, less reading off my note card and engaging with my audience.

When I practiced my speech in front of my mirror, I was doing very well with my eye contact, well maybe its because I was just looking at myself. When actually presenting my speech in front of everyone, it was very different then looking at myself. I tried keeping my eyes on a swivel and trying to make eye contact with everyone but it was just too hard. I was way to nervous to look into someone’s eyes and have them judge me through their eyes. For my next speech, I will definitely work on that and I will practice in front of people before going into the class.

I made a note card so that when I was lost with my speech I can glance at it and stay on track, but I happened to look at the note card more then my audience and yes I did notice it. When I looked out into my audience I begin to get nervous therefore I kept my eyes on the note card as much as possible. Also, another reason I just read off the note card is because I was not fairly ready for my speech. I practiced it a couple of times but mostly just reading off the note card itself. I think for my next speech I will know a lot about my topic since it interest me and therefore I will almost even speak from the heart.

I believe one big improvement I need to develop is to engage my audience and have them on the same level as me. My attention getter should have been better to get my audience more interested in my topic instead of actually just informing them about my topic. I also should have used real like examples to maybe relate to my audience instead of just explaining the history. For my next speech I will probably be engaging with my audience way more and have them on the same level as me so I can relate more information with them.

After finishing up my speech, I thought to myself, “man I did a horrible job on this speech and I know I could have done things so much better. I should have made better eye contact, read less off my note card and engaged with my audience more.” Overall I don’t think I did that bad because I thought it would have gone worse. Never in my life have I ever given a speech for that long in a class before. So for my first time giving a informative speech I think I did ok.

audience analysis/ audience adaptation

So, the importance of audience analysis and audience adaptation in the speech development process is very simple. It’s the audiences attention towards the speech, what I mean is the reaction of the facial expression. The way you give your speech is the way you observe your surroundings. If the audience is smiling or confused, the tone or the speed of your voice will vary because you might not expect their reaction to be that way. I know this might be confusing but I guess it is just the way I feel. Anyways, what I am planning to do in my speech is probably getting the audience’s attention by using visuals so they wont have to listen to my boring speech haha.

speech buddy adapting to your audience

I really enjoyed the videos this week. Not only because it’s very useful but it helps you feel more comfortable around your surroundings. Making a connecting with your audience will help you overcome your fear because you connect by being on the same page with everyone. So in the video, Matthew did a great job informing the audience with a lot of information and backup to get to his point which was the responsibilities of drinking. Also, he didn’t stay in one spot and just read notes off his paper. He used the overhead to possibly get the audience's attention with a visual so it’s not so boring listening to the guy.

what i found in chapter 6 that was interesting

the topic that was discussed in chapter six was about the research in a speech before presenting it. shows you different ways to do a research on the topic of your choice. what i thought was interesting and very useful was the sources that can be used in the library. i actually never thought to go to the library to do my research, i mean it is common sense to do so but i always use the sources right in front of me, such as the internet or anything that can help around the house. but in reality, the library really is a great place to do research because it provides us with variety of sources we can use in different sections such as the internet, bibliography, books, magazines, etc.

Chapter 6 response

The videos once again gave me useful tips that I can use to improve my speech ability. The first video gave me more confidence about the use of the library. How I can get information about the research im doing and to not be shy about asking the librarians for help haha. Also, doing a full research about my topic is very crucial in presenting the information. Once again, the second video where Dory is giving her speech, just gives me the chills about the whole presenting speeches. The third video didn’t really interest me to much, talking about gastropods and slugs. I think over all, I will definitely keep in mind about the researching before the presentation since it seems like the key to a successful speech.

Research interview

Why yes, I have done a research interview. This was done in my high school days as a senior I believe. The interview went fairly well due no knowledge of what I was saying though. But the interview went better than I expected. This guy I interviewed was a music producer but not yet famous. My goal was to interview him about how he got into the business, who were his influences, and many more. I guess my weakness of the interview was the lack of time I spent studying about music production and such, therefore the interview was a little awkward on my part. I guess what I suggest everyone to do before interviewing someone is to do research on it.

The seven different sources of uncertainty

A interesting topic that stood out to me was the seven different sources of uncertainty, role as a speaker, speaking abilities, your ideas, the audience’s response, the setting, technology, and evaluation. All seven of these sources are very useful when speaking in public and I have not made the initiative to even think about them. By having all seven different sources of uncertainty in the back of my mind when speaking in public, I think it might help me with my apprehensive to public speaking. Other than the seven different sources of uncertainty, chapter two was very helpful to me because it filled me in with a lot of information that I have not thought about.

Speech Buddy Videos

First off, I didn’t even realize that the video’s we’re taken place at SJSU until the second video. But back to the assignment, what I learned from all three of the videos are techniques of recuperating yourself from the nervousness and visualizing the setting before giving the speech. Techniques that were shown in the video seems like it will relax my body and to keep my mind out of the gutter. In the second video, the guy talks about visualizing the setting before hand so that when you are giving the speech, you feel comfortable giving it because you already got used to the setting. Also, he mentioned that before giving the speech, you should be sure of the introduction as well as the conclusion to increase the confidence. The last video pretty much gave me a sneak peak of what I am going to be doing when we all meet up so it kind of gave me the chills.

What makes you apprehensive about public speaking?

The thing that makes me apprehensive about speaking in public is that all eyes are on me and if i make the tiniest mistake, people are there to witness it. Also, the seven different sources of uncertainty seem to be the main reason I fear public speaking all the time. Uncertainty about your role as a speaker, speaking abilities, your ideas, the audience’s response, the setting, technology, and evaluation all fit into my fear of public speaking. But the biggest fear out of the seven has to be uncertainty about the audience’s response. When I’m speaking, I feel so sure that my ideas are right but in the back of my head, I know the audiences are thinking different and this leads me apprehensive about speaking public. When I was in high school giving a speech for my English class, I experienced one of the seven different sources of uncertainty which happened to be the one about the response in the audience. I had to explain a current issue in the United States and I choose abortions. I did my research and had everything in order but this guy had to say something to correct me every second of my speech making me feel like I didn’t know my stuff. I then felt very uncomfortable speaking the rest of my speech.

introduction

My name is Julian and I am 20 years old. I am originally from the bay area, Benicia to be exact, and currently living off campus of SJSU. I am 100% Korean but born in Alaska. I like to stay active at all times so I am usually at the gym or playing some sort of sport with my friends. I am also in a fraternity on campus Delta Sigma Phi, we are brand new and I am a founding father, also the Secretary. We are having a hard time with this because of some mix up's but still hanging in there.

This is my first public speaking class I am taking so I dont really have any experiences of public speaking but since I am the Secretary, I do speak a lot to my brothers in public. My goals for this class is of couse to speak better/comfortable in public. So I hope to accomplish that by taking this class.

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