Speech Critique Essay

slideshow presentation on this dinosaur. I was terrified to present because my peers laughed at my speech impediment. Joselyn, the cult leader, made me feel so alone while I was at school. To avoid humiliation, I asked my teacher if I could present just to her. She looked at me coldly and said I needed to grow up and “get over it.” But I could not just “get over” this feeling of failure. I had attended speech classes from kindergarten to fifth grade, but the classes did not help much. I still…

My clinic client that I observe has his therapy session on Tuesdays at 10:15. He is around 3 years old and originally had the diagnosis of language delay. His diagnosis has changed from that to developmental articulation disorder and expressive language disorder. One thing that surprised me was that most of the activities during the therapy session are the client is just playing and then the clinician tries to get him to produce words and utterances. One specific experience that I remember was…

For this extra credit opportunity, I watched the first Republican debates of the 2016 campaign. Given that this assignment is for an advanced public speaking course, I focused most of my attention on the nonverbal communication of the debaters and their use of rhetorical devices, two qualities that distinguish advanced public speakers. During the course of the debate, several candidates showed strengths and weaknesses in these areas. Every candidate appeared to understand the importance of…

sweaty so that causes me to move my fingers around to make them not as sweaty. I like to shift my weight back and forth because it keeps me moving. Also when I am giving a speech I feel like I can only make eye contact with the person that is grading me and just glance at the audience here and there. Just giving our first speech with the Chinese fortune cookie, I was nervous right when I stepped up and right away I felt my face go red and the room get hot. I think it’s because I feel like I am…

my interest in and vocal support of egalitarianism, I was later nominated by my English teacher, Mrs. Lindsay Gutierrez, for the Jack Weinstein Award through Facing History and Ourselves. I won the award thereafter, because I made a video-recorded speech regarding gender discrimination intervention that was terse yet impassioned. I recounted a past event that compelled me to take a stance against sexism: I went against my grandfather. The patriarchal traditions and values he held could not take…

(Part A) I can now say that I understand the importance of ethical speaking, along with the capability of analyzing a presentation for logic and evidence. It is important to know your audience, doing so will make your presentation much better. In chapter 3, both authors Alyssa Miler and Rachel Price, affirm this by stating, “Knowing the speaking setting, the audience, and our knowledge of the topic, we are able to confront ethical dilemmas…” (p 3) In my case, I can use this as an advantage when…

Target behavior to be changed: I chose to change my fear of speaking in public for the self- change project. It is important for me to change this behavior because I want to replace this fear with being confident while presenting myself in public, more specifically in a business setting. Baseline and data gathering: The method I used to collect my baseline data (the measurement of my present behavior) was the SUDS scale. I used this method because the SUDS scale is for measuring “subjective…

variety of treatments have attempted to ameliorate overt stuttering behaviors; however, most therapeutic options provide unstable, effortful, and/or unnatural sounding results with high relapse rates. Recent research suggests second speech signals provide natural sounding speech coupled with stable and effortless reductions in overt stuttering frequency; yet its current application, employed acoustically, has several limitations. A tactile modality may be more comfortable and reduce the…

Informative Speech Self-Evaluation Assignment Speech Topic: Ninjas 1. Evaluate the success of your introduction. I feel that my introduction did a good job of getting my audience’s attention by catching there attention with the picture of one of the disguise commonly used by ninjas. I also feel that I did an ok job at establishing my credibility. But I think that a rushed a bit at the begging and started off a little flustered. 2. Evaluate your delivery. For most of my speech I feel that I…

Two people reviewed the informative speech I gave on Thursday, October 15. Both reviewers graded, and scored my speech similarly. According to Joey Betley my highlight was that the video I showed reinforced my information, and was a good idea. For my improvement Joey Betley said to make more eye contact while speaking. I agree with this reviewer I do think that my eye contact was weak, and could have been better. As for the video I thought that it did a good job of explaining how windmills work,…