Self-Evaluation

As I look back at my speech and see how I did in my presentation, there were a lot of changes. The purpose was to send a message to the audience of what the topic is about and the importance of the topic. Like before, I was afraid that the purpose was not delivered to the audience and there would be no point of a speech if the purpose was not shown. However, after watching the video that was recorded, as an overall rating of how I performed I think that the purpose that I was trying to prove was accomplished although it was not thoroughly, but the gist of it was presented. As for confidence and comfortable speech, it was very hard for me to express since my weakness was presenting in front of audiences. I did not feel comfortable because I believe that although I knew what I had to say, I was not ready to perform those aspects of what I want to say. As for confidence, it was just that the courage in presenting in front of many people is very weak. Having to do it over again, I would most likely change the way how I organized my speech since I noticed the order of what goes first and what goes after was distorted and I believe this was because through my nervousness.

One goal that I would have for improving the content in my next speech is the organization. As before, my organization was very weak and after watching the video, I found out that my thesis was given after I have presented my first topic. Since things were out of order, I start to lose the momentum and stop at certain points to pick up what I forgot. For the delivery section, I believe that if I put more time into how I present and the step-by-step into making the speech, it would have been better. To add on to this, I noticed that I use a lot of filler words to replace the quietness when I get stuck as I was making my speech. Furthermore, aside from filler words, I also move my hands a lot although I did not move around at all. Another thing I found that was really disturbing was that I kept looking back at the powerpoint slide to point out the details and pictures of what I was saying and that kept me from making eye contact with the audience and if I was to rate my eye contact with the audience, I would give myself a 6 - 7 from a scale of 1-10.

Sources are important and citing them is extremely important because if we don't cite the sources, it would mean that we are plagiarizing. As for the pictures that I have posted up on my power point slide, the last slide was reserved for the citations of all the pictures that I used. However more importantly was mentioning the sources that I used to deliver my speech. Without the sources, I would not be able to even research about my topic and find out facts about it. Although I was making my speech, I did not mention anything about my source such as: "According to.....". It was terrible and I had forgotten to mention the sources as I lay out the facts that I found in these sources. As a result, on a scale from A-F, I would give myself a because although I had all the information, the time management in giving my speech was not efficient and this resulted in leaving out some information. Not only that, I also did not give a lot of eye contact since some of the time I either look at my power point and look at my note cards after stuttering.