Informative Speech: Nonverbal Processes

I believe my delivery in this speech seemed to be better than my informative speech. Three specific nonverbal behaviors I noticed in this speech were the use of hand gestures, moving and using gestures, and eye contact. Most of my hand gestures were used in a good way, some were unnecessary but overall they were good. One way I would use them is by pointing at the photos on my visual aid. At 0:10 I pointed to my attention slide with pictures of cats and dogs. Then again at 2:55 I pointed at the photo of the dogs in a cage. I had another picture at 3:20 but I did not point at it. I think pointing to a photo brings more attention to it rather than having it up there without pointing it out verbally or physically. It also shows its important to what I am talking about. I would also use hand gestures whenever I was describing something physical or explaining something. At 0:42 I was talking about wanting to adopt a big dog and I would put my hand out and measure it. Then again when I was talking about the puppy mill conditions and I said something about a small cage at 2:17 I did something to where it was supposed to mimic a box. The gestures were exaggerating, even though it was not intentional, it could or could not have been …show more content…
I had all the parts of the introduction and conclusion. I orally cited most of my sources. I forgot one which was in the first cause about the puppy and kitten mills. I believe my visual aid helped with my speech since it was not filled with information and I included some photos. There were a few things that were not on there or a photo was overlapping with words. I made sure to save the visual aid and open it to see everything was fine and some things were messed up such as no bullet points showing and I fixed it. Even though I did that it still managed to look messed up on the computer in the