Improving Speaking Skills

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1. Identify the speaking settings/occasions you expect to encounter in the course of your life, in both professional and community arenas.
 I expect presentation including power point presentation(research presentation), which can be used later when I get a job.
2. What are your current strengths as a speaker (for example, good researcher, logical thinker, confident speaker, etc.).
 I think my strengths as a speaker is that I take a lot of time preparing better speech. I try to make my speech not too boring but also not too light. When I research for specific topic, I usually find information as many as possible

3. What do you consider to be your principal weaknesses as a speaker?
 My weaknesses are pronunciation and speed of speech. My

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