Essay On Informative Speech

Speeches are always a hard task to complete. Some more complicated then others depending on the situation, the topic, and the audience. The informative speech was one of the harder speeches I had to give since it had to include more research, and more hard facts then the previous speeches. Therefore, it needed more preparation. During preparation part of the informative speech a key learning moment for me was that you can’t procrastinate and do it the night before. That means don’t procrastinate on topic selection, research, or on the crafting of the outline and speech. The book states that “For most brief speeches (under 10 minutes), you should allow at least one week from topic selection to speech delivery” (Beebe, 68). Not procrastinating …show more content…
Another key learning moment I had was learning that I should let go and not let the fear of public speaking hold me back. I believe learning that helps improve confidence. The reason for that as the books explains that it is a reason to channel all the nervous energy you have into a great speech. For example, if I compare the informative speech with the speech before it which was the family history speech I could see improvement with confidence up in the front of the room and also I wasn’t as nervous as I was for the family history speech which I think showed in the fact that I had a little more confidence as I was speaking. In addition, I also learned that notecards aren’t a way of having your speech in front of you but instead a tool to help guide you as you speak. For the informative speech I got a couple of peer feedbacks that stated that I should use and look down at my notecards less. At some points during the speech I noticed that I was looking down too much but having statistics to read made it seem impossible at …show more content…
Getting all the feedback helped me to improve my speaking skills. As a speaker from speech two to three I improved my transitions. In speech three they were more noticeable to the audience I believe since I got feedback that I did well on my transitions. For example, when I went from topic to topic I would say something like “secondly I’m going to discuss why I believe organ donation is important to discuss”. Another place that I improved on is with my previewing main points this was another thing I got a lot of compliments on in peer review. Well watching my speech, I noticed that I did a good job with previewing my main points in my introduction. The differences I saw between these two speeches is the amount of confidence I had up there and the amount of nervousness I experienced up there. I felt for the informative speech I was less nervous I think that it because I was more prepared and did more practicing. The confidence during the speech was better during the persuasive speech because of the fact that I was more comfortable talking in front of all the classmates since we’ve done speeches a couple of times before that one. This tells me that through reputation, preparation, and practice public speaking gets easier and less challenging. It supported the statement practice makes perfect which I’ve heard since I was little. By comparing these two speeches I learned that anyone