First Self Evaluation Paper In our public speaking class, I wrote an informative speech in order to inform the class about the vacation spot of St. Martin. After watching the video of myself giving my speech, I realized what I needed to improve on in my upcoming speeches. In this paper I am going to talk about my credibility, delivery, content of speech, and my goals. First, I am going to talk about my credibility. I think that I did a decent job on stating why I could talk about the vacation spot of St. Martin. I explained in 0:47 of my speech that I had traveled there six different times in my life. However, throughout my speech I somewhat failed to orally cite where I got my information. For example, when talking about the hotels to stay
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The first thing I noticed in my video is that I say “umm” way too often. The first time I said, “umm” in my speech was at 0:10 and continued to say it throughout my whole entire speech. I found it quite annoying when listening to myself. It is my go to word when I am nervous and it is something I really need to work on. The second thing I noticed is that I don’t look professional when giving my speech because instead of standing up straight and tall, I lean to the side and kind of stick my hip out. The first time I noticed this is at 0:09 in my speech. I think that if I were to stand up and be confident while delivering my speech it would make my performance a lot better. Last but not least I noticed my enthusiasm level almost seemed sarcastic in the very beginning of my speech. At 0:03 in my speech when I was stating my purpose statement, my tone in voice was strange and not exactly as enthusiastic as I could have been. I feel that if I practiced my speech a little more than I actually did, my delivery process would have been much …show more content…
My speech went in the order it was supposed to. I started with my purpose statement, and continued on with my attention step, introduction to my topic, relation to the audience, ethos statement, and my thesis. This period was from the very beginning of my speech until about 1:00 in. I then followed with a transition into my first topic, followed by another transition, my second topic, and so on and while ending with my conclusion. Although I followed the criteria for the assignment, my organization was not the best. At 4:26 I was so mixed up with what I was going to say about The Gingerbread Café that I sat there and said, “Yeah…..so…” while trying to reorganize my thoughts. I noticed different situations like this throughout my whole speech. Another thing I struggled with when it came to the content of my speech was again my sources. I failed to orally cite specific sources when talking about the restaurants in St. Martin. At 3:56 in my speech I just stated, “I got all of that from the restaurant websites”. The fact that I didn’t properly place my citations shows that the points in my speech did not have the absolute best supporting
The first thing I noticed in my video is that I say “umm” way too often. The first time I said, “umm” in my speech was at 0:10 and continued to say it throughout my whole entire speech. I found it quite annoying when listening to myself. It is my go to word when I am nervous and it is something I really need to work on. The second thing I noticed is that I don’t look professional when giving my speech because instead of standing up straight and tall, I lean to the side and kind of stick my hip out. The first time I noticed this is at 0:09 in my speech. I think that if I were to stand up and be confident while delivering my speech it would make my performance a lot better. Last but not least I noticed my enthusiasm level almost seemed sarcastic in the very beginning of my speech. At 0:03 in my speech when I was stating my purpose statement, my tone in voice was strange and not exactly as enthusiastic as I could have been. I feel that if I practiced my speech a little more than I actually did, my delivery process would have been much …show more content…
My speech went in the order it was supposed to. I started with my purpose statement, and continued on with my attention step, introduction to my topic, relation to the audience, ethos statement, and my thesis. This period was from the very beginning of my speech until about 1:00 in. I then followed with a transition into my first topic, followed by another transition, my second topic, and so on and while ending with my conclusion. Although I followed the criteria for the assignment, my organization was not the best. At 4:26 I was so mixed up with what I was going to say about The Gingerbread Café that I sat there and said, “Yeah…..so…” while trying to reorganize my thoughts. I noticed different situations like this throughout my whole speech. Another thing I struggled with when it came to the content of my speech was again my sources. I failed to orally cite specific sources when talking about the restaurants in St. Martin. At 3:56 in my speech I just stated, “I got all of that from the restaurant websites”. The fact that I didn’t properly place my citations shows that the points in my speech did not have the absolute best supporting