Compared to the personal speech assignment, I felt the informative speech, in general, is a more challenging assignment. Since it basically combines a research paper and a speech, it was very time-consuming to finish all the requirement, especially it was in the midterm period. But after all, I found a way to balance the time to finish this assignment and gave a effective speech to the class. And I found myself gradually gain experience and confidence in the speech class. Based on the previous speech experience and recommendation from the professor and classmates, this time I used more strategies from the 4-steps methods. I started my first rehearsal on the day before our outline was due. Because I really want to make sure the speech won’t
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Because, it was essentially the second time I spoke to the same group of audience, I did not feel too nervous. I think I gained experiences from my personal speech, and absorbed knowledge from others’ speeches. So I came up and started to give speech. And I found my attention grabber was useful, when people heard this speech is something about “Baruch and CUNY students”, they inevitably started to pay more attention to me. I think I went through it very smooth and fluent in the first part, in particular, I did not use some unnecessary transition words such as “it’s like” and “kind of”. However, in the middle of the speech, I suddenly noticed that I did not use enough eye contacts as I did for the first speech. I think probably it was because my eye contacts were not too natural, so that I had to use eye contacts very intentionally, which means if I pay a lot attention on other parts of speech, such as, gesture and time management, then I will forget the eye contact part. Then, in the second half of the speech, I started to use more eye contacts to correct my mistake. And I think I used more gestures than the last time, since I practiced a lot during my rehearsal. And this time, I actually got more reflections from the audience, because I the topic is more relevant and interesting to
Because, it was essentially the second time I spoke to the same group of audience, I did not feel too nervous. I think I gained experiences from my personal speech, and absorbed knowledge from others’ speeches. So I came up and started to give speech. And I found my attention grabber was useful, when people heard this speech is something about “Baruch and CUNY students”, they inevitably started to pay more attention to me. I think I went through it very smooth and fluent in the first part, in particular, I did not use some unnecessary transition words such as “it’s like” and “kind of”. However, in the middle of the speech, I suddenly noticed that I did not use enough eye contacts as I did for the first speech. I think probably it was because my eye contacts were not too natural, so that I had to use eye contacts very intentionally, which means if I pay a lot attention on other parts of speech, such as, gesture and time management, then I will forget the eye contact part. Then, in the second half of the speech, I started to use more eye contacts to correct my mistake. And I think I used more gestures than the last time, since I practiced a lot during my rehearsal. And this time, I actually got more reflections from the audience, because I the topic is more relevant and interesting to