speech #4
This speech was my worst speech, which was opposite of what I was expecting. I thought it would be my best speech, incorporating everything that I’ve learned from the other three speeches that I’ve given this semester. I got nervous when I was speaking and completely blanked when I was talking. I tried to just keep going, but I know I started looking at my note cards and saying “um” a lot. I thought that I had the best main points in this speech out of all of my speeches, and thought I would be able to talk a lot about them since I was speaking from experience and had good supporting points in my outline. I think I might have recited my speech a little too much, and so was expecting to say things, and then when I forgot what they were, I blanked and couldn’t remember what I wanted to say next. If I could do this speech over again I would, because I know that I could have done a much better job with it.
Things that I would improve on if I were doing another speech would be not saying “um” and looking at my notecards so much. Also, I would try to make better eye contact. Since I was looking at my notecards, I wasn’t making great eye contact with the audience. I would also try to be less nervous next time and have more fun with it, since I chose a topic that would be fun for me and would have been fun for the class if I had presented it better.
One thing that was easier with this speech was making the outline. I thought I did a much better job on it, and I thought it was easier to make since I knew how to do it and had examples (my other outlines) to look at.