Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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.
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Hey.
ReplyDeleteYou probably felt more comfortable in front of your fraternity brothers because you know all them and they’re all your friends. But there is nothing wrong in presenting your speech in front of them. I bet they found your speech useful since it would interest them since it is about them. I think that it would have been more effective if you presented your speech in front of your new pledges that way they get educated on the fraternity and you get practice in front of an audience that you are not close with. But I’m glad to see that it did help you improve for the next speech.
Hey,
ReplyDeleteI think giving the speech a second time around always come out better the second time. Focusing more on your audience rather than your notecaards is somethng you can bring to your next speech since you now have more practice with it. I'm sure it was easier to give the speech in front of your fraternity brothers, compared to the front of our class. I think having less written on your notecards is always a good idea, it keeps you from directly reading off of them. I hate it too when there is things you forgot to say in your speech, it happened in my first speech. I'm glad this helped you for your next speech. :)