3rd Self evaluation

My speech topic was on Littering. I feel that my speech’s purpose had achieved its purpose. I did a lot of research for my third speech and thought I used good information. After doing the last two speeches I felt more confident on my third speech. I did not like having my turn being number ten. I wanted one of the earlier numbers so I can get it over with. Waiting for my turn made me kind of nervous. For this speech I didn’t get to practice as much as I did for my second speech so I did feel kind of uneasy and not as confident. If I had to do my speech again I would add a few more main points, find more interesting pictures for my power point slides, and work more on eye contact.
The last speech was an informative speech. I thought it was easier because all I had to do was look up information. The good thing was that I was able to find a lot of useful information. The bad was that my visual aid was not a PowerPoint. My third speech had a power point but that was because it was required, but it had nice pictures to look at. I felt that I still wasn’t really projecting any emotions during my speech for both of the speeches. One thing I notice was that I did not pause so much compared to the other speeches. In the speech I had mentioned three sources.
I did not use a lot of hand gestures but remembered that my leg felt restless like I wanted to move around. I don’t think I made much improvement for doing anything distracting. The gestures I did for the second speech were similar to the things I did for the third speech. The rating I would give myself for eye contact would be 7 out of 10. I glanced around the room and made eye contact with a majority of my classmates, but I looked over some of them. The grade I should get for the third speech is a B. For the past two speeches I was suppose to improve on my dynamic delivery skills but I don’t think I sounded very dynamic for any of my speeches. I’ve improved on certain areas like not making awkward pauses that made me look like I had lost my place and speaking louder.
I think my second speech was better than my third speech. I just felt more enthusiastic about that topic. It was something I liked. I know we were able to choose any topic for our speeches but for the third speech I just picked it randomly. I did pick something I liked for my first speech but because it was my first speech, I felt really nervous. Although my visual aid for my second speech was not a power point, I thought it was a really good idea to choose fruits and describe what vitamins they have. Based on all my speeches I performed best on my second speech.

Helpful concepts that helped in class.

The concept of knowing about your topic was really helpful. Before doing research I thought about how much information I already have on my topic. When I try to add it to the outline I realized that, with the general things I know, it is not enough to make a long speech. After researching my topics I felt more confident in what I’m going to say. I know that what I’m going to say is true because I used sources that are reliable. The breathing exercising was also helpful. They’re actually quite calming and helped me feel a little bit less nervous.

Favorite speech

My favorite speech was the informative speech. My topic was on nutrition and it was usually something I like to talk and learn about. It’s also a really broad topic so I was able to find many books in the library compared to the others. When I went to the library for books on littering there were very few and hard to find and they were mostly on pollution and landfills. I think that the informative speech is easier than persuasive, just because it‘s research and deliver. I didn’t have to find ways to convince my audience to do anything besides tell them things.

Video 15.1

Both of the speakers provided good examples to support their idea. I learned how to look for the thesis, claims, evidence and reasoning. Each speaker stated their claim and then gave a sample of evidence ten backed with up with reasoning. Robert started that parents can’t teach their children as well as teachers because they don’t have the time or the credential. Then explained why they don’t have the time or the credential. Dixie backed up her claim of how schools are violence with example and a statistic. Dixie used a question to get the audience to picture their children in a violent environment to relate to the audience. Robert stated how people come from different schools of many backgrounds.

Interesting concept chapter 15

One concept I found interesting is a qualifier, it is the not using of the words like probably, likely, often and usually. The book used an example of the likeliness of outsourcing plane maintenance causes more plane accidents. By using the word likely it makes the fact sound less likely to be true. After I read the paragraph, I recalled a moment in my second speech where I used the word often. I was saying how all fruits have fiber and a bit of vitamin C in it. Instead of saying what I intended, I added “often most fruits have fiber and vitamin C.”

Recent discussion

My recent discussion was just a few minutes ago when my friend was arguing with me how I always round off time wrong and that comparing it to normal rounding off things. I usually like to look at time by the every half hour and hour. I feel that minutes go by too fast so anything past thirty minutes is basically an hour already. My friend says that way off and that my reasoning is wrong. I used analogical reasoning by comparing my rounding off my test score to minutes in time. My reasoning did not go well because my friend kept giving more examples and made my reasoning fail.

Main points for next speech

My first main point is to show the problem which is how there is trash everywhere and how it makes places dirty and gross looking. Then my solution is to explain where to put the trash instead of littering. Next for the visual I plan to show pictures of areas in cities and such of how filthy certain areas can be. For my introduction I will use the attention getter, which is to describe people felt a wall or walked past a pole and it smelled really bad and explain my purpose and preview the main points. The conclusion is the review of the main points and to convince my audience to stop littering.