Speech Evaluation # 3

Overall, I believe I achieved my purpose quite well for this speech. I emphasized the points that I really wanted to touch on and also used my powerpoint slides to create more of an interest in my speech. I was a bit nervous in the beginning, I guess that’s natural, but as the speech went on I got over it and just really wanted to get all the information out. I felt pretty confident while doing my speech, even though I did have some difficulty practicing it because this one definitely had more information involved. But in general, I was pretty confident because I had done lots of research for my speech and went in knowing my topic pretty well. If I had to do it over again and make some changes, I wish we had more time to prepare for the speech (like having the outlines due sooner), I would have practiced my speech in front of some friends so I could get feedback of some of the “do’s and don’ts”, I actually wish I had time to show the class a documentary that I watched and was on an episode of Oprah about the portrayal of beauty around the world. Seeing that documentary really moved me, also gave me a lot to work with in doing research for my speech. Lastly, my delivery I hoped I wasn’t so nervous. Being nervous is natural, and me telling myself to not be so nervous helped a little, but it was still there. Some specific things that were different from my prior speeches was: this was the first time I used powerpoint as a visual aid (good), I think it really helped me emphasize my points better by showing graphic pictures of women in the media and it gave attention to my speech more. I think that in my last speech I had a pretty good delivery, I wasn’t as nervous as I was the 3rd time around. I also tended to rely on my note cards a lot in this speech though which, was a bad thing. I didn’t do anything distracting in my speech other than relying on my note cards (if you want to call that annoying? Well maybe to some people). I do think that this was definitely an improvement from my last speech; I had all my information well organized, my ideas in this speech were more thourough, and I had more complex ideas. If I could rate myself on a scale of 1-10 I would probably rate myself an 8, there’s always room for improvement. Based on performance, on a scale from an A to an F, I would give myself an A-, which is what I received. It wasn’t perfect, but there was definitely improvement from my last speech. My preparation could have been better as I believe I stated previously above.
I think this speech was better in some aspects than my last speech, because of my ideas that I incorporated in and also the variety of sources that I utilized. I mentioned a total of 5 source citations thoughout the entire course of my speech. So based on my review of all three of my speeches I think that this last speech was my best. I broke outside of my shell and discussed a topic that really had value to me which I wanted to share with the rest of the class. I think this would be a great topic to write a paper on :).