If You Speech Self Evaluation - Stephanie Williams

Self-Evaluation Stephanie Williams

Professor Carlos Perlaza

Fundamentals of Speech

May 24, 2018

If You Speech Self Evaluation

In my “If You Speech”, I lost track of time and didn’t get to spend a lot of time preparing and practicing. I was always told, “excuses are not a defense” so I won’t make an excuse for what I feel is a poorly, “If You” speech. It’s actually quite hard for me to watch it over and over again. I practiced as much as possible to memorize the speech. I selected a location to relocate too, in hopes of it being an easier topic. I wanted to be confident with my topic and what I wanted to say. I recorded my speech about three or four times and I replayed it over and over again to get better each time.

My delivery is not to my best ability. I have some decent eye contact, voice volume, and delivery. Throughout the entire video I look as nervous as I feel. I am moving from side to side and at one point I more forward and become a little unbalanced. I am more focused on delivering the speech in an organized and understandable way, that I am not passionate or excited while delivering the speech. I keep my hands behind my back to keep from talking with my hands. I am going to challenge myself to one video recording a day with the goal of gaining more experience and confidence in giving speeches. I want to become more confident with my delivery and be able to display more passion and enthusiasm!

I was able to deliver my speech within the time limit since I kept the speech informative. However, because I focused solely on trying to memorize the speech, I sound really scripted. I become tongue tingled during, “Austria’s unique natural environment…. Choke…. defines you learn something new every day.” I wanted to stop and start over but I continued to press forward. I only used one personal example, “I buy my wine in bulk,” to back up the information when I should have used more. Playing back my recording I wished I would have used some visual aids of the beach or wine, to get my message across without taking away from the speech. My speech overall to me, is boring!

On my next speech, I will make sure to improve on my delivery. My goal is not to bore the audience