Bullying Informative Speech

For the topic 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 presented my speech I had planned out everything clearly and organize; with the layout involving the use of my sources in my speech. However, when I started my speech, once again I got ahead of myself and completely forgot about using my sources. I feel like with my transitions I could have been a …show more content…
I feel like the organization of my speech was ok, it was how I performed the speech, was where I went wrong. My head was working faster than my mouth so I was getting ahead of myself, so I would get confused on where I left on, and leave a long awkward pause. I feel like my energy in my presentation could have been a little more upbeat, and I could have a little a more spring in my step. However, I think I did ok, with the amount of nerves I had giving this speech. One of the main things I noticed in my speech was my gestures, I was all of the places with my hands, feels and body. I was too busy crossing my legs, playing with the flashcards, fixing my hair versus focusing on giving my speech smoothly. I feel like my voice was a little shaking at parts, and there was a lot of unneeded verbal fillers and they were because of nerves. For this speech I did relied to much on notecards and that took away from my speech, because I was to worried about reading the notecards than just speaking smoothly. I knew the information, and I feel that the notecards just made my speech less