Oral Communication

Video Self-Evaluation
Review the videotape of your speech. As you watch, answer the following questions. 1. How did you try to get the audiences attention? How effective was it?

I used a very common conversation that most teenagers faced in their daily life as my attention getter. I think it was pretty effective, because my audience started to wonder what is going on.
2. Did you clearly communicate your purpose (e.g. I am going to inform/convince you about/to)? How did you motivate your audience to listen to you?

I clearly communicated my purpose. I motivated my audience to listen to my speech by telling them the benefit of learning the new skill that I will be teaching them, and how this new skill that they will be learning affect their future life.
3. How was your speech organized? How clearly/logically did it progress? Could I stop paying attention to you and read your outline instead and still follow along easily?

My speech was organized by the outline. I think its progress was quite clear and logical, because I was going through the order from top to the bottom of our body. You could stop paying attention to my speech and still follow the outline easily.
4. What were some of the transition words you used in your speech? Did you clearly indicate movement from one part of your speech to another? Why/why not?

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I did not quite use transition words in this speech. However, some transition words that I used are time words like first of all, lastly, then, etc. I did not clearly indicate the movement of one part if the speech to another because the speech progressed quite logical, so I thought the specific movements of the speech main points were/were not clearly presented. are understood. Explain why your My main points of the speech were clearly presented, because they were not too complicated to understand, and they are modern day events that we teenagers face daily.

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Evaluate your conclusion. Did it connect seamlessly with the introduction and body? Did you give a clear sense of ending?

Yes, my conclusion connected to the introduction and body pretty well. I give a clear sense of ending by reviewing what I just taught my audience, and review why were they even paying attention for.
7. Evaluate your delivery. Were you loud enough/clear enough/energetic enough/varying your tone enough/connecting to your whole audience enough?

My delivery was clear and loud enough as usual. I think I did especially well on varying my tone for this speech, because I had to portray two different characters for my attention getter.

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My use of voice and gestures looked like I was not nervous on the stage, and very confident in what I was talking about. However, in the very beginning my bodily action kind of showed that I was nervous, when my body was kind of moving around, but I kind of saved it back afterwards. Next time, I should try not to stare people in the eyes, then I will not show off my nervous ticks.
Did you appear sincerely interested and enthusiastic in the topic (your classmate) and in your talking with your audience? What did your body language and eye contact say to your audience? Give examples to support your answers.

How did your use of voice, gestures, and bodily action enhance (or detract) from the message of your speech? What will you do to enhance the message of your speaking opportunities?

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Evaluate the overall success of this speech. What grade (A-F) would you assign this presentation? Why?

I was very interested and enthusiastic about my speech. My body language in the beginning showed that I was a little nervous, but after awhile, I looked very comfortable in what I was doing. My eye contact showed that I was pretty comfortable on stage, giving my speech.

I will probably give myself A- for this one. Overall, everything went well, I did not stop during the speech, and did not blank out any moment in the speech. Although there were some nervous ticks going on, but I figured out during the speech, and hold it back a little bit so it did not showed afterwards.
11. Describe what you have learned from this speaking opportunity, and how you will use this information in the future.

I will need to improve my eye contact, gestures, and utilize transition words in order to help my audience to have an even better understanding of my speech, and catch up easily if thyroid got lost.
12. What did you learn from this presentation that will help you prepare your future speech? List at least three things that you plan on working on. (To just practice is not a specific step exactly how will you practice?) a. I should learn to use more transition words for my

next speech, in case my audience got lost in the middle of the speech, because in this speech, there were many information that was needed to catch up, but meanwhile, they must also now what was going on.
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learn not to stare people in the eyes while giving my eye contact to my audience, because although eye contacts are very important for the speech, however, it will be negative if I showed I was actually nervous on the stage, and it will let the audience be curious whether the speech is true or not.
I should learn to give more specific gestures, so that the message would appear even clear to my audience, because there were many things in the speech needed that gesture, but I was not able to use gestures to help my audience to have a better understanding of the speech.

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Describe, in detail, the areas you will improve your public speaking and exactly how you will improve. Include a variety of specific steps you will take to improve your public speaking skills.

Next time, I should try not to stare people in the eyes while my eye contact is still showing people that I am completely comfortable in what I am talking about, and on stage. I would practice that by giving speeches to my parents before the actual speech.