Personal Narrative: My Informative Speech

In order to prepare for my informative speech, I practiced at home with my note cards and PowerPoint slides to make sure they flowed smoothly. I tend to perform quite well in front of people when talking, so being in front of an audience to give a speech did not seem to be a vast deal to me. Even though I do tend to catch some nerves, they never truly show through which is something that my parents say I am blessed with. Once I finished my speech, I felt like I did the best that I could. Although I did have some mess ups with the information that I wanted to get across to my peer audience, I believe that they understood most of what my information was and the points that I wanted to emphasize the most. I did a respectable job of explaining my …show more content…
The audience and peers were surprised about the information that I shared and none of them knew Warren Jeffs, so it was nice to talk and give facts about him since not many knew of him in the first place. This experience was different from my shield speech in many different ways. I believe that my shield speech went smoother than this informative one since it was about me and it wasn't full of facts like the informative one. When it comes to talking about myself, it comes easier than reading a bunch of facts about someone else's life instead. The next time I give an informative speech I will try to make sure that I have all of my facts down ahead of time so that the flow can improve with one another. I could face situations of giving informative speeches in the future many times. Right now I want to become a paramedic, and many times you need to know what you are doing in a certain specific situation. Nevertheless, when training other paramedics and getting the intern hours in, you need to be able to talk through the processes even while you are under that tremendous amount of