Final Speech Evaluation Research Paper

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Final Speech Evaluation

My experience in the the class was a lot better than I had expected.
I really had big fear talking in front of people. First of all, even though I live in the U.S. For 18 years, I couldn 't be comfortable speaking in front of people in English, is my second language. Second, I am just scared of being center of attention. But the class setting was doing big favor to me. It was small class so I didn 't have to speech to 50 people. And the teacher, Mr. Sebern and my classmates are encouraging, warm and kind people. I believe they noticed my situation and had been helping me to learn comfortably in the class. I really enjoyed the lectures too, there were a lot of humors and practical explanations that 's make sense not only for speech but palso in real life. I learned a lot about public speaking that helps me doing my job better. With some reason, I was not good at giving eye contact to audience or perhaps to my customers. I also did not think it was that important, however, it was one of the core skills influencing people into the subject. The other thing was I notice I was too worry if people understand my accents. Many times I had avoided using certain words because I knew I couldn 't pronounce
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And by doing some speeches, I gained confidence little by little. It was great. The group activities and interaction/feedback was very helpful to me as well. Josh was excellent speaker and knowledgable in many things. I learned a lot in public speaking from him such as how we pick the supporting articles for the topic. He was not shy at all and always try to present what people want to know. I thought that 's also important in public speaking. It was also good experience meeting other students learning in same

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