Areas that I feel like I have improved in during this communications 101 course is becoming more confident in speaking in front of a small crowd, learning how to write speeches, and learning how to research and prepare for speeches. Everyone 's fear is public speaking. I avoided taking this class for the longest time just because I did not want to have to take a class where its entirety was just about speaking in front of people and doing a handful of speeches being my primary grade. I needed to take this class for when I transfer over to Arizona State University in the fall of 2017 so getting this class out of the way now at the University of Nevada was more of an ideal plan rather than taking it at ASU. This class is a core pre-requisite
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Practice makes perfect as everyone has heard this saying before. In the future, I plan on practicing my speeches more by speaking in front of a mirror over and over again to give myself the impression of what I look like when speaking in front of a group of people. Practicing in front of a mirror over and over again will also help me memorize my speech more instead of relying on my note card as often, giving me more confidence while speaking. I tend to use my note card as a comforting thing when I get nervous and forget what I am about to say. It gives me the chance to collect my thoughts and remember what I was going to say as well as staying on track of where I was going in my speech. I need to learn how to talk at a slower rate when giving my speeches as well. I am a fast talker in general, but become even more of a fast talker when I get nervous, which tends to happen quite frequently when I am giving my speeches. I think the more I practice, the more confident I will be, which will stop me from relying on my note card as often, it will help me not talk as quickly when speaking in front of everyone, and it will help me become a better speaker overall. Another area of improvement I feel like I could work on getting better at is not putting so much content or information …show more content…
We had to pretend we were in that moment of time where the occasion is occurring and give a speech based off of that occasion. I did my special occasion speech on my friends Rachel and Thai’s wedding. I noticed during this speech after watching it, I did have some of the similar and same habits as I did in my persuasive speech. I used my hands a lot, I swayed my body throughout the speech, was very fidgety and used “um” and “like” a lot as word fillers. I noticed I did not have as good eye contact in this speech as I did in the persuasive speech because I had to do a lot of thinking to remember where what was going to say in the next part of the story I was giving. I tried not to rely on my note card as much during this speech and I could tell that I definitely feel more comfortable being able to rely on my notecard that not being able to. My organization was not the best compared to my persuasive speech because it is hard when you are talking about people and giving a story without having an outline to really follow. I did have a loud and clear speaking voice, but I was speaking in a rushed and quick
Practice makes perfect as everyone has heard this saying before. In the future, I plan on practicing my speeches more by speaking in front of a mirror over and over again to give myself the impression of what I look like when speaking in front of a group of people. Practicing in front of a mirror over and over again will also help me memorize my speech more instead of relying on my note card as often, giving me more confidence while speaking. I tend to use my note card as a comforting thing when I get nervous and forget what I am about to say. It gives me the chance to collect my thoughts and remember what I was going to say as well as staying on track of where I was going in my speech. I need to learn how to talk at a slower rate when giving my speeches as well. I am a fast talker in general, but become even more of a fast talker when I get nervous, which tends to happen quite frequently when I am giving my speeches. I think the more I practice, the more confident I will be, which will stop me from relying on my note card as often, it will help me not talk as quickly when speaking in front of everyone, and it will help me become a better speaker overall. Another area of improvement I feel like I could work on getting better at is not putting so much content or information …show more content…
We had to pretend we were in that moment of time where the occasion is occurring and give a speech based off of that occasion. I did my special occasion speech on my friends Rachel and Thai’s wedding. I noticed during this speech after watching it, I did have some of the similar and same habits as I did in my persuasive speech. I used my hands a lot, I swayed my body throughout the speech, was very fidgety and used “um” and “like” a lot as word fillers. I noticed I did not have as good eye contact in this speech as I did in the persuasive speech because I had to do a lot of thinking to remember where what was going to say in the next part of the story I was giving. I tried not to rely on my note card as much during this speech and I could tell that I definitely feel more comfortable being able to rely on my notecard that not being able to. My organization was not the best compared to my persuasive speech because it is hard when you are talking about people and giving a story without having an outline to really follow. I did have a loud and clear speaking voice, but I was speaking in a rushed and quick