Example Of A Cultural Artifact

The artifact I chose was a speech that we prepared for for about two weeks and then delivered using only note cards, visual aids, and our memory. I had to have oral citations that gave credibility to the author throughout our speech and had a time limit of five to eight minutes. The point of the speech was to keep my audience entertained and deliver a lot of information on a topic that was interesting and applicable to the audience and me. I was also the “expert on the topic”. I chose this as my best piece of work because it is hard to get a good grade on the speech and memorize my content. Almost everyone gets nervous when they do public speaking and this can cause errors when delivering the message they prepared. This forced me to control my nerves and clear my mind to deliver what I knew I had prepared. This is also a skill that is very applicable to the real world because in business people always give speeches and presentations. This piece of work shows that I take this class very seriously because it can help me succeed later down the road. This piece of work also shows that I demonstrate proficiency of the standards because it shows I conducted research. The research was the bulk of my …show more content…
The preparing of the speech was not too bad, but it helped me overcome the fear a little bit because I knew I was prepared. I felt that after giving my speech I felt I had a structure that was easy to follow and I delivered relevant and interesting information. After watching myself, I could definitely tell there were some things that I could improve in. The biggest one was that I need to loosen up and smile more when I am giving my speech. Two other ones were I didn’t move around a lot, and my mind when blank when I was delivering my speech. These are all things that I can work on, and hopefully become less and less of a problem as I do more and more speeches and get more