Public Speaking Experience Essay

Speech Reflection – Informative Speech 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)…

First Self Evaluation Paper In our public speaking class, I wrote an informative speech in order to inform the class about the vacation spot of St. Martin. After watching the video of myself giving my speech, I realized what I needed to improve on in my upcoming speeches. In this paper I am going to talk about my credibility, delivery, content of speech, and my goals. First, I am going to talk about my credibility. I think that I did a decent job on stating why I could talk about the vacation…

Throughout the past two months I feel that I have grown a lot in my studies. The first week or so I was anxious about classes and meeting new people and attempting to adjust to living on my own for the next 4 or so months. But I quickly learned that once I got settled in, it wasn’t as bad, or as hard, as I thought it would be. Sure some of my classes challenge me but I knew that would happen going in and I wasn’t too worried about that. I was more worried about what I would be doing outside…

In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar Mark Antony’s speech is more persuasive than the one Brutus gives because he uses better tactics and more powerful rhetoric. In his speech Brutus uses gravitas and ethos which in the end backfires because it makes his speech less relatable and portrays him as better than the plebeians. Mark Antony gives his speech after Brutus and he uses this to his advantage by using verbal irony and more specially sarcasm. Mark Antony uses pathos and exaggeration to…

Until taking this speech class, I had no idea how much time and effort great speakers put into their speeches. They must be able to immediately grab their audience’s attention, they must be able to make what they are saying exciting and worth knowing, and they must also deliver their speech in a unique way, so that they can continue to keep the audience’s attention throughout the duration of the speech. Until I sat down and critiqued my speech and realized that even though I thought I was very…

Just like talking yourself up, you have to remember what you have accomplished. I am taking public speaking at Edgecombe Community College and if you do not know already, the class is based around giving speeches and learning to better project your ideas to a public audience. Whenever I am about to give a speech, I go back to the night of the Distinguished Young Women Program. I think about how well I did and how I felt when I…

• I have read Chapter 15 of the textbook by Lucas. • Lucas gives four types of informative speeches. 1) Speeches about objects. 2) Speeches about processes. 3) Speeches about events. 4) Speeches about concepts. Of the four I would choose number two, Speeches about processes. This type will help me help state my informative speech in steps to present it in a clear organized manner that is easy for the audience to comprehend and follow along as I give my speech in detail. • Lucas also gives six…

Informative Speech Self-Assessment The Informative speech I presented in the class was my first experience of speechmaking on a nonscientific subject. In this essay, I have self-assessed the following three aspects of the first speech I made: organization, speech outline and speech delivery. The speech I make was well-organized because It helped me effectively connect the main points, and supporting points I wished to shared with my audience. I believe my speech was well-structured because…

When it comes to speaking in front of people, I get nervous. Whether there are a few people in the room or a huge auditorium full of people. It has been an obstacle for me throughout my life. From show and tell in 3rd grade to big projects in high school, I always became flustered. I’ve always been scared of not being good enough, until one day I decided to make some changes. During my Junior year of high school, I joined the Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE). I enrolled in TAFE…

1. I believe there were some positive aspects of my speech. Firstly, I was not a nervous when speaking in front of the audience. This allowed me to have the speech flow smoother than last time. I was not expecting the audience to be as large as it was this time; but I think the increase of people might have helped easy some of my anxiety. My video seemed to be clear enough, the audio was not as good as I had hoped. I am proud I finally got the laptop to work with me and stayed relatively calm…