Reflection On Public Speaking

Prior to this course, I had a whole bunch of ambiguous feelings about taking Public Speaking. Most of these emotions were associated with fear and dread. The reason being is because I recall always having a horrid experience speaking in front of a large crowd. I can remember trembling as I spoke sounding like a complete idiot and only embarrassing myself. Although a multiple amount of people were excited for me to better myself speaking in public, I honestly was not looking forward to it. But, as I conditioned myself to the thought of it, my expectations developed. In this course, I wanted to improve my public speaking skills as well as learn a few techniques to combat stage fright and to better my speaking. In this class, I learnt some valuable …show more content…
This would include the informative, persuasive, expressive, and formal presentation. To begin, the informative presentation deals with informing the audience on a subject or issue. However, the persuasive speech persuades the audience to believe, question, or think about the presenter’s point of view. The expressive presentation is a brief yet creative speech exhibiting someone’s talent or knowledge on anything they desire to share. Finally, the formal presentation is a serious and proper presentation utilizing a script and is usually performed in an incredibly formal setting (such as graduation, a wedding, a conference, et cetera). The presentation I believe I am best at is the persuasive style of speaking. For that reason, persuasion has been an action I am prodigious at for a while. Whenever I need to convince someone about a point or a reason, I usually win the person over by how I say …show more content…
First, my strengths are being knowledgeable about my subject, being persuasive and frank, and articulating. How I capitalized these strengths is by acknowledging and flaunting them additionally. With strengths comes weaknesses. The weaknesses that I deem prominent were my stage fright, attempting to not look at my speaking outline as I spoke, and to maintain a good amount of body language. To overcome these difficulties, working on them and addressing these problems were the only way I could minimize them. To highlight my strengths and lower my weaknesses, a few techniques were applied. This would include writing an outline before writing the speech and channeling my stage fright into positive interaction with the audience. These two methods helped eliminate my anxiety in front of people and saved time when writing my