Self Evaluation #3

My last and final speech for this class was an actuative speech about reducing the use of grocery plastic bags. Overall I wanted to inform my audience about the negative effects of plastic bags in our society and as a whole I believe I was able to accomplish this.

Since this was my third speech overall it was better. First off I was much more confident and comfortable during the speech. During the speech the audience didn’t feel like strangers, as it did my first, but in fact classmates. I didn’t have to talk in front of room with people I didn’t know. I was very confident during my speech because I knew my topic well. Even though I felt as if I wasn’t prepared enough I felt that through my research I knew my topic.

From watching the video I learned a lot. During the duration of the speech I mentioned source citations about three times—once at the beginning, middle, and at the end. In my last speech about dining etiquette I learned that I looked and depended too much on the computer screen and the projector. During this speech that I just had I had learned not to do this and focus on my audience instead. While watching the video I really didn’t notice myself doing anything distracting which is an improvement from the last speech I said when I didn’t look enough at my audience. While watching over the video I also noticed that there were some slight differences between the informative speech and the actuative speech. During the actuative speech I looked more at the audience. Anotehr good thing I did was having a more effective powerpoint because I remember in the last speech there were too many text effects which overall distracted me from presenting my presentation. I really couldn’t think of anything majorly bad that I did during the actuative speech.

My speech I believe was very successful. I was able to achieve the purpose of my speech. During the speech I also believed that I maintained good contact with my audience and I didn’t depend on my notecards and powerpoint so much. For this speech I would rate my eye contact as a 9.5 on a scale of 1-10.

Overall this speech was better than my first and second speech. Even though I was short on time to study my speech thoroughly and to prepare and run through my speech I believe that this speech overall went really well. On a scale of A to F I would give myself an A-. I surely did improve from my last speeches but for some reason I just felt like I lacked the energy of some kind to get a strong A. For example, during some parts of the speech I was hesitant on what to say, or I kept repeating myself. Based on all three speeches I would definitely say this was my best speech. With each speech I did I drastically improved from the one before and fixed my previous mistakes. For example, in my informative speech when I looked too much at the screen and not the audience. If I had to do this speech over again I would probably just prepare more at saying my speech aloud.