My Informative Speech Outline

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To prepare for my informative speech I just looked over my outline a few times and then went through my speech in my head. I never fully practiced my speech or timed it, but I knew that with the amount of information I had I would not be short on time. Also with the amount of information I had I knew that I would not exceed the time limit. This time when I was in front of the class I was less nervous than before, but before my speech I was quite nervous. Even though I did not practice my speech very much I knew what I was going to say and talk about. I feel I could work on my eye contact and looking around the room. I didn’t feel like I was looking down at my note cards for large amounts of time, but I didn’t look around the whole time, I mostly just looked straight ahead. I could glance at my note cards a little more so when I do need them to find what to say next I won’t take as long because I will know where I am on my note cards. …show more content…
Next time for my speech I will practice a little more and be a little more prepare so I have little to no vocalized pauses and will know what to say about next.
When I finished my speech I felt relieved that my speech was over. Also, before the first speech I felt that this class would not be enjoyable considering all of the speeches that we give during the year, but now that the first speech is done I know that giving the other speeches will not be that awful. I now know that I don’t need to worry about giving another speech as much as I did the first

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