1) I think I achieved the purpose of my speech pretty well considering the time constraint. It's difficult because I chose such a broad and important topic and I had to try and figure out what aspects to discuss. However, I think I did do a pretty good job giving people a basic knowledge and understanding of my topic.
2) I felt somewhat confident during my speech. I'm usually extremely confident when speaking in public, but the time constraint really stresses me out and makes me feel uncomfortable and rushed. The time constraint aside, I was pretty comfortable speaking about my topic and being in front of the class.
3) If I had to do it again I would probably trim the fat a bit in my speech so that I would have an easier time staying within the allotted time slot. I feel that I was well prepared, and I practiced my speech quite a bit. I just couldn't seem to get the timing down. I would also not look at my presentation media, because I did get marked down for that. I think the issue is that I feel like I need to acknowledge my presentation media during my speech, which makes me draw my attention there.
4) One goal I have for improving the content of my speech is to try and focus more on the point and less on fancy wording. I think that the way I try to use such descriptive phrasing ends up coming around to bite me because it takes more time to say, which causes my speech to run long.
5) In order to better my delivery I'm mainly going to work on eye contact with the audience and try to stay within the time limit. I'm also going to pay more attention to the time cards that come up because I missed a couple this speech and I think it had a negative affect on my time management.
6) From my last speech I feel I did a better job orally citing sources. However, I did worse at maintaining eye contact and my time management was worse as well.
7) I can't think of anything that I did that could be very distracting. The only thing that may have distracted the audience a bit was when I broke eye contact and looked at my presentation media instead.
8) I'd probably give my eye contact a six or so. Immediately after the speech I would've said that I did a very good job maintaining eye contact. However, looking back now I do remember looking at my media more frequently than I originally thought I did. The funny thing is that I didn't even realize I was doing it.
9) Based on my performance I would give myself a B. This is because I feel that I did a good job presenting my topic, I don't think I paused or stammered much, and I think my presentation media as well as speech content was effective and interesting. The only things that I could see as a real problem were that I went over my time limit and I payed a little too much attention to my media.
10) I mentioned seven source citations throughout my speech. I cited a total of seven sources both orally and in my bibliography.
11) I feel like my last speech was better than this one. Although I went over on time during the demonstrative speech as well, it wasn't as long. Also, my eye contact was better and I was a bit less nervous.
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