Dr. Darren Ranco Speech Analysis

The presentation I attended was about Sustaining Native American Wabanaki Basket-Making Traditions by Dr. Darren Ranco. He actually experienced the basket making in native America, which is why he chose to speak about it. Based on his presentation, his intended audience was probably most anyone. He stated in his speech that it could be for anyone just a little interested to give it a try to look into it. To begin, the speech started off very well, he did not show all of the parts needed for a speech. Such as, the preview statement and relevance. However, I do see how it can be hard to make this topic very relevant, especially to students. The body of the speech was put together pretty well. He used very clear and effective transitions throughout his speech. His conclusion came to us so quickly that it was not impactful of his speech. I felt that he could have done so much more to end his speech. He did not present a review statement as needed nor did he impact us at the end. In addition to the body part of the speech, the cites and evidence were important also. Instead of speaking of each work separately, Ranco had a few slides of many different works cited. This I felt was not professional or at all the right way to do this, because the powerpoint should not have been used to cite his works that he found, …show more content…
He had great extemporaneous speech and casual talk, however, he was not able to move around and show gestures through his presentation. The visual aids used in Ranco’s speech were great and informative, however, there were too many and he used them the wrong way. Instead of using the pictures to help him describe the scene or event, he just showed it most times and let it describe itself. This defeats the purpose of images shown in a powerpoint, you always want to use them to talk more. Also, he had very crowded and obnoxious slides, the pictures were pushed together and hard to