Reflective Essay: Improving Communication

I greatly appreciate taking this course with you Professor Skibba. What I have gained, knowledge wise, has improved my everyday resources. My original goals had the intention to become better in communication. In the first essay, I mentioned, for me it 's hard to grasp the minuet details in many arenas. This issue often led to unclear thoughts and to a lower self-esteem. Furthermore, realizing that as an apparent problem brought forth the need for a solution. Basic ways of learning wasn 't cutting it. But, as you can see, the courage needed to improve was obviously there. That courage created the basis to start moving forward by taking this course.
Throughout the course, if my memory serves me right, mainly, I received positive feedback from my fellow students. "Great critique, I 'm looking forward to your speech" was the typical conclusion of many of the individual 's feedback that I received. Some fellow students were extremely nice and a few student 's stuck out to be openly-opinionated, which I respected a lot. One such student, I specifically messaged her on the pager to ask for her own critique on my work. She graciously gave feedback, even though she wasn 't a part of my group at that time. Regarding …show more content…
The Eulogy speech honestly threw me off by speaking in third person about myself and by incorporating memories without jumping into first person. The Pro/Con speech was more straight forward in my opinion. I was able to rattle off more stuff from my brain except for the gigantic statistics that I used. I was so worried about rattling off the wrong numbers that I couldn 't help myself from directing my eye 's to the written stats. Finally, the Persuasive Speech allowed for a personal connection and that enabled me to speak freely. Furthermore, I was absorbed into one side of the speech, all of the information I came across, personal interviews and personal experience glued the experience