Self Evaluation

For our demonstration speech my purpose was to explain the uses of magic cookie bars and demonstrate how to make them and I felt I achieved this purpose very successfully. I believe my success is due to the fact that I pretty comfortable and confident during this speech. The beginning I was a little nervous, so I looked down a lot and if I could have changed one thing it would be that I did not write anything on my note card for the introduction and first main point so I did not look down; thus would improve the delivery of my speech. I think that the note cards through me off a lot because I will be looking at my cards talking but I am not actually using them for reference at all I am just looking at them so I do not have to look at the audience. The only time I am actually successful at using my cards is when I really need the information in front of my eyes such as with sources. I also would have made a note card reminding me to cite my sources because I did awful with that. That leads me to my main goal which will improve my content of my next speech which will be to look more into my type of sources and exactly where they are coming from. Now that I have gone over what I felt I did right and wrong let’s go over what I remember I did wrong.

            The issues of my delivery were many I feel I make many mistakes still. The first thing I noticed was that I looked down for most of the beginning. I also shift side to side and play with the note cards which can be a small distraction. My eye contact was approximately a seven. I did not look up much in the beginning, but after the first point I kept great eye contact once the nerves were gone. I did not cite any sources verbally which was my biggest flaw. This big mistake would make me give myself a B on my speech overall. I thought I prepared nicely, had good organization, I used my visual aid effectively, and the only bad parts were I looked down in the beginning and did not verbally cite my sources even though they were cited in my outline. If I was to be in the audience during my speech I would say that I had good interest in my topic, had a decent amount of credibility, great presentation, well organized points, and a good attention getter and ending line. I would tell me to work on citing sources even though it does sound funny and start off with good eye contact from the beginning. Other than that I would just say stay focused on relaxing and not letting nerves get to me, just think of the people in the room as people and they are here to help me they do not want me to fail.  Overall I did better than average, but I have a few mistakes to fix before I would say it was excellent.