used the parallel form I believe that I had a lot of solid information and was able to oral cite my sources as well as trying to keep the audience interested. On the other hand, my delivery was not the best I could have done. I stood in the same place for most of the speech and looked at my outline a lot. In the future, I need to work on being more comfortable and moving around more when giving my speech. Also, I am going to try to not add as many words onto my outline. I feel that if I can be able to step away from my outline more and read from it less, it will help me it move around and feel more confortable being in front of the class. I believe that I know almost all of the information I am presenting but use the outline as a safety net, and use it too much. Another item I need to work on is using my visual aid. This was the first time I had used a visual aid for a speech in college and I did not do my best. I learned that I should add more substance too my PowerPoint and make it more interesting for the audience, also allowing them in follow along. Overall, in my next two speeches I need to focus on being more relaxed and comfortable in my delivery, putting less information on my outline, and using a better visual aid for me…
annunciation and an audible voice, less nervous habits such as running my hand through my hair or examining my hands. Overall I find when giving a presentation, I do not do all of the distracting and unflattering things I shouldn’t do and find I myself doing more of the professional things I should be doing. Though I still struggle, I have learned, observed, listened, and practiced and I am well on my way to becoming a proficient and exceptional communicator. I have always been a grammar and…
I’ll get to the reason why on Day 3. But I do like to make notes of what I hope to write. You don’t have to use complete sentences here, words will be suffice. For example, your outline may start out like this: Intro: Importance of content Stat Accountability As you can see, I have three points I wanted to make in the introduction of this blog. I used this outline when writing. If you are using information from someone else’s blog, make a note to attribute the writer and website here. You…
Compared to the personal speech assignment, I felt the informative speech, in general, is a more challenging assignment. Since it basically combines a research paper and a speech, it was very time-consuming to finish all the requirement, especially it was in the midterm period. But after all, I found a way to balance the time to finish this assignment and gave a effective speech to the class. And I found myself gradually gain experience and confidence in the speech class. Based on the previous…
The informative speech I gave on Wednesday about “GM Foods” did not go better than I expected that I could have done because I felt time pressure to organize a verbal outline as closer to written outline. On the topic “GM Foods”, my rhetoric was mainly to inform audiences about negative impact of GM foods on human health. The most difficult part of this informative speech for me is the topic selection. Going through the struggle of finding the topic of large public/audiences interest which can…
I really did not know how to set up a speech properly. It was great to learn how to use an outline to set up a speech and use it as a guide to state my points. Previously when I spoke I would try and memorize every single thing I wanted to say which ended up setting me up for failure. The first speech in this class I ended up trying to memorize exactly what I wanted to say after I had written it all out. I then ended up reading directly off my paper, which wasn’t what I wanted to accomplish.…
analyzed the ideologies and political practices that Hitler used. He utilized de–individualization, scarcity and consistency theory to retain German loyalty and promote his rhetoric. My group was very unique and consisted of several strengths and weaknesses that added to the effectiveness of our presentation. Without our respective traits, the project would not have reached fruition. My Contributions Prior to Presentation Our presentation analyzed German persuasive strategies during WWII. I…
At the start of the project, I created a Google Doc for the project outline and wrote the topic headers for it. In terms of outside research, I was the one who researched, found, and contacted Professor Susan Epstein from Hunter College to speak. This turned into a tedious process that resulted in about 20 emails being sent back and forth between her and I. Despite the difficulties I had in getting definitive answers from her, I was fortunately able to get her to come in to speak. Additionally,…
Baylor Personal Statement I could hear conversation coming from inside the room. Confused and eager, I positioned myself behind the door. Why was no one excited? The faint murmur of the next sentence cut straight through my heart, “Due to the lack of oxygen during your son’s birth, there is a high probability of him developing disorders during his childhood.” This couldn’t be happening to my baby brother. I had waited months to finally hold him, and now I had to wait a few more weeks, until he…
Youth Theatre is defined by the National Association Youth Drama 2014 as ‘a safe place that supports young people by using group or ensemble drama approaches. Contributing to the artistic, personal and social development of young people through their commitment and voluntary participation ‘. Therefore Youth theatre groups promote different approaches, which have equivalent focuses such as the development of theatre skills or personal development in order to provide beneficial educational values.…