self-evaluation 1

I thought that I did fairly well on the speech that I presented last week, of course there are many things that I need to improve on but overall it was not bad. I did feel really confident thanks to the ridiculous amounts of practice but if I had to do this over again I would definitely change a lot of things. One thing I would try to work on the most was the speed at which I was talking. I was definitely flying through words. Another thing that I would change is my posture during the speech. Keeping my hand in my pock may be a way of dealing with the nervous tension, but is doesn’t really look good when giving a speech.

Content wise I would have added a few more things. To make the speech longer but at the same time if I started to go over I could just drop from the speech. This could have help compensate for the fast talking but towards the end of the speech I noticed that I added things to my speech that I did not intend to say in the conclusion. Another improvement in the righting of the speech could be the integration of the sources. I probably could have thrown in a quote someone has said about cars.

The other major thing that I would change is the actual delivering of the speech. As I said before the posture thing that I said before but the other thing is the eye contact. Rating on a scale of one to ten it would probably be a six. I would not say that it was not nonexistent bit I would not say that it was superb. I looked at one side of the room a more than the other it I really did not make eye contact.
The other thing that I would have liked to change would be a better delivery of my main topics. Looking at the comment from everyone most people got the main topics but some really missed them. It may have been due to the speed at which I was talking or because of the way my speech was set up. Nevertheless it needs to be improved. Another thing that can be improved with better speech writing is a better support for the examples. Though I thought that I had good examples I felt that they were not well backed up and the audience took it at face value.

Most definitely for the upcoming speech I will be trying to focus on the speed at which I am talking, eye contact, and the way that I write my speech. But in regards to this speech I think it was fairly good with lots of room for improvements. If I had to give myself a grade I would give a B-. Because I really did not get my main points across, and if you don’t get your main points across your speech is made in vain. But I am look forward to improving my upcoming speech.