Informative Speech Essay

Informative Speech: Outline: “Managing Stress within the Classroom” Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the ways of managing public-speaking stress in the classroom. Introduction: Here we are, at that moment of panic as a shattering feeling stretches to our very core. It is at this time, that all eyes are thrust upon us. It is at this moment, standing before the class, that many of us freeze in fear. The majority of us have likely experienced this overwhelming sense of anxiety when faced with speaking publicly. In fact, approximately 80 percent of the population has experienced some symptoms associated with delivering a speech or presentation. Today, I would like to share with my audience various tips and methods of managing the stressful…

situation, the topic, and the audience. The informative speech was one of the harder speeches I had to give since it had to include more research, and more hard facts then the previous speeches. Therefore, it needed more preparation. During preparation part of the informative speech a key learning moment for me was that you can’t procrastinate and do it the night before. That means don’t procrastinate on topic selection, research, or on the crafting of the outline and speech. The book states…

I delivered the ‘Informative Speech’ speech on October 19, 2015. As I was delivering the speech, I noticed that I had strengths with visual aids, a clear presentation, and content. I also had weaknesses with my speaking pace and nervousness. What I did well: Before giving the speech, I looked over my notecards so I would not forget what I would say during the speech. I had a clear visual aid with most of my key facts up on a PowerPoint. This helped me because I could focus on the audience rather…

Informative Speech Self-Evaluation Assignment Speech Topic: Ninjas 1. Evaluate the success of your introduction. I feel that my introduction did a good job of getting my audience’s attention by catching there attention with the picture of one of the disguise commonly used by ninjas. I also feel that I did an ok job at establishing my credibility. But I think that a rushed a bit at the begging and started off a little flustered. 2. Evaluate your delivery. For most of my speech I feel that I…

of my Informative speech I decided to do it on Bullying. I feel that my open statement was clear and got the audiences attention. It was something that everyone knew about it and could relate too. However, once I got past the Attention grabber, I started to stutter, and my wording got a little messed up. I was thinking faster than I speaking. Although I did not say a clear preview statement in my head I did, so I have to learn to speaker slower, so I can process what I am saying. Before I…

people reviewed the informative speech I gave on Thursday, October 15. Both reviewers graded, and scored my speech similarly. According to Joey Betley my highlight was that the video I showed reinforced my information, and was a good idea. For my improvement Joey Betley said to make more eye contact while speaking. I agree with this reviewer I do think that my eye contact was weak, and could have been better. As for the video I thought that it did a good job of explaining how windmills work, and…

When giving speeches most of the time the person giving the speech is experiencing Communication apprehension. The definition of Communication apprehension is the level of fear, or anxiety, an individual faces when having to communicate with one or multiple people. I have dealt with Communication apprehension for quite a while now. Although it is not as bad, as it used to be. My freshman year of college, I was actually enrolled in the COMS 130 course, but my fear of public speaking, caused me to…

Informative Speech Self-Assessment The Informative speech I presented in the class was my first experience of speechmaking on a nonscientific subject. In this essay, I have self-assessed the following three aspects of the first speech I made: organization, speech outline and speech delivery. The speech I make was well-organized because It helped me effectively connect the main points, and supporting points I wished to shared with my audience. I believe my speech was well-structured because…

Informative Speech Self Evaluation I feel that this was definitely not one of my best speeches. I was prepared but once I got in front of the class and started to speak I was shocked how shaky my voice was. One thing that I have to say about this is that I personally didn’t feel stressed. I do however have an essential tremor that is genetic in my family which usually only affects my hands but does affect other parts like for example your voice. It can be intensified from nervous which is what…

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…