Audra Bosarge's Speech Analysis

The first speech that I will give my critical analyses on is Audra Bosarge. Audra openly spoke about how nervous she was in her speech, however, besides a few issues, I think she did well. She followed the directions with her speech. It was well organized and delivered. She stayed within the 1-2 minutes and she was seen waist up. Verbally, Audra spoke clearly and with a good variation in her voice and at a good speed. Although she spoke well, she said the word “Umm” entirely too much throughout the speech. This is something that she should really try to work on. Audra really engaged with her audience nonverbally. She made great eye contact, and she performed the speech as if she was in a conversation, rather than giving a lecture, which keeps listeners involved. She could try to loosen up a little with her body movements in her next speech. Her arms were frozen in place throughout the speech. If I were to rate Audra on her speech, I would give her a 6. If it had not been for the over excessive use of the word “Umm” her score would have been much higher. Overall, besides that …show more content…
I don’t want to say that she was monotone, but their seemed to be no variations in her voice. Also she could improve the rate of her voice. Even though everything spoken was very clear and easily understood, she spoke too fast. The speed of her voice combined without inflections could possible make it hard to become fully engaged in the speech, had the speech been longer. Nonverbally, Lauren did not seem too anxious. She does needs to make eye contact with the audience in her next speech to improve. She could also try to engage more with the audience with gestures. It seems as if maybe she was reading the speech from beginning to end, without stopping to acknowledge an audience with her eyes or body