Strengths of Content My speech followed the Monroe Motivated Sequence throughout the presentation. I started out with an attention piece that aimed to touch on each of the artistic proofs: pathos, ethos, and logos. Through telling the sad story of Ophelia (pathos), stating statistics from the American Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals (logos), and by establishing my past in volunteering for a dog shelter for year many years (ethos) successfully grabbed the attention of the audience and also provided an introduction to my topic. After a clear transition, I talked about the need step. Again, using logos (statistics) and reports from a councilman, I was able to establish that there is a serious …show more content…
For example, I was able to make use of proper chronemics. Compared to the other speeches, I spoke much slower and clearer. With proper chronemics and effective use of paralanguage, such as vocal pauses, I was finally able to truly own the room and the attention of the audience. I also significantly improved in the field of proxemics. I was comfortable with leaving the podium and the PowerPoint controls which resulted in me using more of the available space and minimizing the time I spent behind the visual barrier that the podium builds between the audience and I. This was largely due to my particular efforts in practicing the pacing of this speech multiple times over. This practice resulted in me being very confident in my timing and so I knew when I would have to make my way back to the keyboard to switch slides. I did a great job in spreading my eye contact out throughout the room which helped in getting and maintaining the audience’s attention. Overall, I am very happy with the delivery of this speech because I was able to amend my mistakes that I have made in my previous speeches even though that result in a couple of unforeseen but ‘easy-to-correct” mistakes (more on that in the next