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.