Cal Poley Speech Evaluation Sample

For my peer evaluation, I assessed Carolyn Sutherland who is a history major here at Cal Poly. Her first speech was informative about what you can do with a history major and why it appealed to her. Her second speech was also informative, but this one focus more on the incorrect information we have been taught in our primary history classes. Both speeches she gave were easy to follow and very informational, but she did make some improvements between the first and second speech.
Carolyn’s first speech was very easy to listen to. She had great stage presence and obviously felt very comfortable standing up and giving the speech in front of the class. In that way, she was able to make the audience feel more comfortable. She was also very good at …show more content…
Her had great stage presence and again demonstrated her comfort with talking in front of a group of her peers. It was clear she had spent time looking into her topic and had a very good understanding of what she was presenting. Right away it was clear she had put thought into improving her intro. She was more interactive with the class and said things that mostly everyone would be able to relate to. As she talked about some of the ways we were deceived in our childhood history classes, she brought up memories that most of us could look back on. I along with her and probably a majority of our class, reminded the kindergarten activity when half of the class dressed up like pilgrims and the other half of the class dressed up like Indians. Bringing up ideas like that really got me interested and listening to her. Her speech was very well organized and I had no troubled following her transitions from each topic to the next. Carolyn also improved on citing her sources. She was very diligent on letting her audience know where she was getting her information and incorporated some very fascinating quotes. She kept her ability to move around in front of the class, but was obviously conscious about her movements, as they were not distracting for the topic at hand. Her stage presence also remained very entertaining, but she managed to present her speech in a more professional