Self Eval #3

First off, out of all the other speeches that I have done for this class, I haven’t been more proud of any of these speeches except for this most recent one. I believe that the purpose of my speech was well presented; I worked really hard to make sure that I got my point across to my audience. I also felt the most comfortable; I didn’t really get nervous before I went up to speak to the class. If I were present this speech over again, I think I would have added photos to my PowerPoint to make it more eye catching to my audience. I didn’t have any photos up on my PowerPoint. What was different from the last speech to this one was my over all comfort level. During the last two speeches I felt the nervousness in the beginning. This time I just wanted to get it done, I also didn’t want to end on a bad note for my speech class. Another thing that was different from my other speech was that I talked about a topic that involved everyone. I understand that my informative speech was about the evolution of hip-hop, but I do know some individuals in the class that don’t know anything about the subject – and let alone care about the subject. I don’t feel like I did anything that was distracting. I remember my classmates telling me in the little slips of paper that I swayed side to side last time, so I tried to eliminate that in this recent speech, and also eye contact. I feel that when I have note cards I rely too much on them. I made a stronger effort to master my speech without my note cards, and overall I would have rated my eye contact to a 7/8 because I didn’t use my note cards after the second one, and the only thing that I feel I should have looked at a bit more was my PowerPoint before. I think at times I started to look too much at it. On a scale from an A to an F I would agree with Professor Perez, by giving me a solid A. I feel that I did research and worked really hard to get to level that my speech was at. I know I worked more than I did on this speech than any other that we had to deliver. The only part that I flawed on that I kept working on during my preparation, yet it still came up during the class presentation was the timing. I did go over twenty seconds. I figured if I sped through it, it wouldn’t have been overall as effective as I wanted it to be. I would also give myself a solid A because I cited all four sources and used sources that were credible. I learned that hazing is a large part of a college campus and that many websites and government sponsored studies are conducted every year just to see if the statistics are rising or falling. I knew if I used these types of sources then my speech would be much more valid and credible to the audience.

week of 12/7-10

Question: What are you going are you going to take from this class that you think will be helpful in future endeavors?

I feel like I’m going to take a great sense of confidence from this class in public speaking. I have to do many speeches for my job at the middle school campus. I need to present myself well to parents, so they are comfortable leaving me in charge of their teenager after school. During my time of being in the class, I can tell that I have gained this confidence because I recently gave a speech in front of many parents of my students at work, and many of them were coming up to me saying I did well and that they saw a large amount of improvement in my public speaking skills. They said I looked for comfortable. I think overall, confidence is the best thing that I had to gain from this class.

week of 12/7-10

Question: Which speech was your favorite and why?

My favorite speech was my persuasive speech. It was the speech that I got the best grade on and I feel that I presented myself the best. Since I was trying to persuade people, I feel that I had the easiest opportunity to let my personality come out. This is because I try to persuade people in general for a majority of the things that I do; motivate kids to do their best in school, and train counselors for my church camp to be the best they can be. In addition, I feel like I had the most structure in this speech and I researched it the most. All together, I showed everything that I learned throughout this semester in one speech.

week of 12/7-10

Question: What concept or concepts from the class that you thought was the most helpful in preparing your speeches?

From this entire semester, I think that there were many things that were very helpful in preparing for my speeches. Although, some were of more help to me than others, one thing really stands out to me for helping me better prepare for speeches. Not so much a concept that we learned from our books, but something that was implemented in our class meetings. It was the little strips of paper that we received at the end from classmate that evaluated our speech. I believe hearing input from a large group of people made my speech more effective in my next one, especially since it was from people who have seen my progression throughout the class.

week of 11/16-22 #2

Question:Reflect on a recent discussion you’ve had in which you tried to persuade others to accept your point of view. What type or types of reasoning did you use? How well did your reasoning work?

I can recall a time when I was leading a meeting with my staff at work, and I needed to persuade my staff to take my side in a certain sign-in and sign-out procedure. The whole time I was using deductive reasoning by giving then specific examples explaining why the new procedure would best fit our after school program.

Usually students don’t sign out when they leave our after school program, and according to the state of California that is not ok. Since California has a strict policy with the sign-in and out procedure we changed our old procedure to fit the requirements of California completed. But this took a lot of convincing from me to my staff, this is because the new procedure required us to have more work put on our shoulders.

week of 11/16-22 #1

Question: Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.

After reading chapter 15 I read something that I would hardly think to be something of importance in the past. I learned how the topics of a persuasive speech are broken up in different ideas. What I mean by this is that the argument is not something that is one sentence and is only used to prove that. I learned about a premise – something that gives a reason to support a conclusion. In English, I’m learning that your thesis is broken up in sub-thesis’s to provide a fluid argument or claim. I find it the same concept in public speaking. I’m coming to terms that the more I understand in the structure of a speech, the more I feel like I can better deliver it. I hope to bring in premises into my persuasive speech. I want to create different points to why hazing should not be used at all. I feel if I can make premises about my topic I can create a more effective and bite size speech for my audience.

Question: Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.

After reading chapter 14, I have been moved to really take on a more passionate role towards my persuasive speech. After interviewing my father in his hazing experience in his pledging process while trying to become a member of a fraternity, I have really thought about using hard evidence (from the reading) to use in my speech. My father was referring to me about how there weren’t any hazing laws in the time when he was pledging a fraternity, this made me realize that I should tie in the hazing laws that are in every different state or universally throughout the nation. I feel if individuals are just educated then they can feel or get steered into my opinion about hazing.