amyv’s blog

Overall I think my first speech went well.  I found some strengths and weaknesses that I had in preparing and presenting my speech, so now I know what I need to work on.

One thing I struggled with was writing my outline.  I had trouble organizing my ideas and formatting them into an outline.  A basic one was easy to make, but I had trouble adding the details in the right places.  Something else I struggled with during my speech was that I think I said “um” in between ideas when I was trying to think of what I wanted to say.  I’d like to work on breaking that habit.

Before I stood up to give my speech I got really nervous.  I think this may have been helpful in a way though because it seemed to help give me a little bit of an adrenaline rush when I started speaking.  I felt very relieved when my speech was over and thought that I did a decent job of presenting it.  I covered all of my topics and didn’t really get stuck anywhere.