Public Speaking Experience Essay

There is a lot of surveys before that has public speaking as the number one fear for a lot people especially in America. Some of the famous reasons are stage fright, being judge, low self-esteem etc. However, we all need to speak in front of either a small or bigger group of people whether we like it or not. Public speaking cannot be eliminated, we do it often even without realizing it, and sadly for those people who doesn’t like doing it including myself ended up not not being able to deliver…

basketball, and some are experts in chess, but for me, it was public speaking. I loved it, it was what defined me, what made me feel confident. When I was in preschool, I went to my first poetry recital. It was only reciting a four lines of “Humpty Dumpty”, and I pretty sure I pronounced half of the words wrong, the experience was exhilarating, and ever since then, I was hooked to it. Although I had loved it, I never really pursued public speaking because my life revolved around sports at that…

diminished my energy, power and true authentic Self Expression. They prevented me from being all that I had intended to be in my life. The first issue was effective extemporaneous public speaking and the second issue was my incessant complaining and nagging relationship that I had with my father. ISSUE NUMBER ONE: EXTEMPORANEOUS PUBLIC…

College begins and everyone is getting ready to return. The night before, my mind was going back and forth deciding whether I should take Public Speaking online or in campus. I decided to give it a try and take in campus. Maybe this way I could face my fear of speaking in public. Woke on a beautiful Monday August 22nd as I open my eyes I was staring at the ceiling with my heart raising as I become more awake knowing it was time. I get to the campus 40 minutes before class in a warm and humid…

back and reflect on my time in law school, one of my proudest accomplishments is seeing how much I’ve grown as a public speaker, but something weird happened Wednesday afternoon. After completely bombing my presentation during the students’ visit to SJU I tried to make sense of what happened. The last time I was that nervous during a presentation was freshman year of college, my first public speech in a Communications class. On Wednesday, before the speech I wasn’t nervous, as I walked to the…

the beginning of the semester, I was terrified of this public speaking class. I mentally prepared myself to accept that fact that achieving a good grade in this class was impossible. I just knew that I would not be good at this one class. I had flashbacks of my high school graduation and the terrifying practices in order to speak a five sentence ceremonial speech. Through this class, I was able to overcome any feelings of anxiety about speaking in front of others and learned how to create strong…

Delivering the Pet Peeve speech was on the whole a relaxed and enjoyable experience. When the assignment was first issued, I felt a bit reluctant to deliver the speech; I’m only friends with a handful of students in the class, and probably disliked by the rest, so I couldn’t be confident in having a receptive audience. Due to my previous experience public speaking during coffee houses however, my apprehension was easily surmountable. I believe these types of opportunities to perform in front of…

For this paper I was required to observe three speeches from a freshman honors public speaking class. The students in this class were giving their first speeches of the year, apparently K-state has been busy tweaking the way in which we teach public speaking. Students were to give an informative speech. The speech had to have some sort of visual aid and had to be under five minutes in length. I personally decided to work on the first three speakers. Before the speakers began their professor,…

According to O'Hair, Rubenstein and Stewart (2016) “Words are the public speaker’s tools of the trade…” (p. 117) In the fifth-tenth chapter of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking, the authors write about which oral style to use, use of concrete language and vivid imagery, words that build credibility, and those that create an impression. I will summarize these areas in the following paper. When speakers are preparing speeches, they must remember that listeners only have one chance to hear the…

Public speaking is commonly feared by people in our society today. Individuals need to have a good understanding of the different ways in which people communicate and interact with each other. Public speakers have to be very good listeners, have adequate preparation, and be very confident in order to become an effective public speaker. President Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States in 2008. Obama is a great example of an effective public speaker because his presentation…