Harry Houdini Informative Speech

The Day of the Speech My informative speech topic was on the life of Harry Houdini and the purpose of it was to inform my classmates on his early life, most famous acts, and his tragic final days. My strengths were my eye contact and my extemporaneous delivery. My weaknesses were the verbal citations and the degree of nervousness. One of my strengths I felt was strong was eye contact with my audience. Giving speeches makes me nervous, but making eye contact doesn’t cause me to become more nervous, so it is something I am better at doing. I remember looking at my audience when talking most of the time, even though I did look at my cards sometimes to. Making eye contact also helped my extemporaneous delivery which was another one of my other strengths. It was easy to give my speech in a conversational manner because I did a lot of research on Harry Houdini, so I felt prepared to tell my audience about his life. Giving my speech I felt like I was telling …show more content…
Speeches make most people nervous. If I was less nervous I feel like I would have done even better at keeping eye contact. If I wasn’t so nervous I would have been able to stay away from my card and the PowerPoint a lot more. Also if I was not as nervous as I felt when giving my speech I would have remembered more easily that I have to cite my sources verbally. Lastly because of my degree of nervousness I forgot to give a conclusion that wasn’t cut short because I wanted to sit down. I have learned a lot about myself from doing my informative speech. I have learned that my eye contact with the audience and my extemporaneous delivery are strengths that I want to keep having and making better. But I also learned that I have weaknesses that I have to work on to give a better speech, which are practicing citing sources verbally more and trying to not get so nervous that it hinders my ability to do a great