Commemorative Speech Critique

For my self-critique assessment, I chose to critique my commemorative speech, which was on basketball. Overall, I think that I did a good job on this speech, but there is always room for improvement. First, I think that I had a lot of good aspects to this speech, which include that: I picked a topic that I was passionate about, discussed various life lessons that someone can learn from playing the game of basketball, elaborated on why I feel it should be commemorated, and incorporated some mistakes and rhetorical devices that added value to my speech. As a whole, I think that my speech proved how much of my time and effort that I’ve invested into the game of basketball as well as how much I’ve been through in order to keep playing (ex: injuries). For this assignment, I found it much harder to think about the positives of my speech because I always find more areas of improvement. In …show more content…
Although there were several good aspects to this speech, there were minor issues that needed to be addressed in order to ensure that my speeches continue to improve with time. Some of those issues in my speech include: that I need to speak at a slower rate, minimize laughter, control my breathing, and stop using verbal fillers. Personally, I speak very quickly, so that only gets worse as I get more and more nervous. I was extremely nervous for my last speech, which explains why I spoke so quickly. Also, I believe that my speech will go much smoother if I minimize my laughter and have better control of my breathing. Some of the heavy breathing was purposeful, but I found it hard