The last and final speech for the semester! I found this speech to be actually the most difficult since the time span was longer and a different organizational pattern. I believe I did pretty well achieving the purpose of my speech, which was by letting my audience know the horrid truth behind the meat industry. I notice people’s faces were shocked, probably from the images provided from the PowerPoint. I felt somewhat comfortable and confident when I was giving my speech because I already knew about my topic from being a vegetarian for three years. Problem was I did let my nerves get to me, worst out of all the speeches, because I noticed there was more people this time to watch what I had to say. So I did look to my note cards a lot, but did my best to give eye contact. If I only wasn’t so intimidated I would have done so much better!
If I had to do it over again, there are many changes I would make in preparation, support, organization, and delivery. For preparation, I would have worked on memorizing more of my speech, especially the main points. For support, I probably could have used more resources to better convince my audience what’s going on behind the meat industry. For organization, I don’t thing there were much changes needed. For delivery, definitely better eye contact with the audience and more energy in my speech. What was specifically different from my last speech that was good was in the last speech, I didn’t feel as nervous and for bad I got the nerves really get to me. I messed up plenty of times by jumbling my words or mispronouncing something.
I think the most distracting thing I could have done was apologize or do hand gestures when I made a mistake when presenting my speech. If I had to rate my eye contact on scale from 1-10, I would give myself a 6. I believe I looked to my note cards this time out of all the speeches, which is a big no-no! On a scale from A to F, the grade I would give myself based on my performance would be a B- because of the verbal mistakes and lack of eye contact. No, I don’t believe this speech was better than my last speech. Due to the same reasons, verbal mistakes and lack of eye contact, as well as letting my nerves get the best of me. The amount of source citations I mentioned during the course of my speech was four, two being books, one being internet, and one being a magazine.
Based on my review of ALL three speeches, the one I think I performed the best was the second speech. I think I performed the best with this one because since it was a make-up, there weren’t that many people there. I didn’t feel like all these eyes were just staring at me and felt calmer. I only wish I had a better memory of my speech in my head and I would of definitely have chosen my last speech to be the best one.
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Hey Kai! I thought your speech on the meat industry was great. I'm glad you got to speak out on a topic that a lot of people are unaware of. I was pretty shocked myself when I saw some of the pictures from your Power Point, but I think that's what makes your audience more knowledgeable and aware that they should something about the meat industry. I mispronounced a lot of words as well, probably because I don't use them in everyday language. I don't remember your first speech as I do your last speech, but I don't think your eye contact was horrific if you compare the two. I think you had great eye contact, even if it wasn't between 90-95% contact. Overall, great job :).
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