Speech #4 Reflection
Monday, April 20th, 2009 | Uncategorized
For my fourth and final speech in this class, I chose to present a demonstrative speech on “How To Make a Fleece Blanket”. I had some trouble with this speech because after I had chosen the topic and began preparing the speech, I realized that my topic did not give me enough information to present a well developed and lengthy speech. I tried to do as much research as possible to learn about different techniques for making these blankets, but I had some trouble. During my presentation, I tried to maintain eye contact with the audience and speak clearly and loud enough for everyone to hear. I was quite nervous but I think that I did an okay job at making eye contact. My voice was pretty shaky because I was really nervous so I think I could have improved in that area. I also panicked a little bit towards the middle of the presentation because my notecards fell out of order in the process of me demonstrating how to make the blanket so that kind of threw me off and caused me to pause during my speech. Besides the few minor setbacks in the speech, I think that if I were to do a demonstrative speech again I would be sure to pick a more detailed topic and not be so nervous. 🙂