Self Evaluation Assignment #2

I thought that I did well in achieving my purpose of my speech. The purpose was to inform the class what the tough mudder was like and I felt that I was able to get through to them. I felt pretty confident and relaxed during my speech. Practice really does make perfect because it is getting easier the more I get up in front of people. I would have spent more time practicing before hand because I got a little bit to casual. I would organize my speech more in my outline and spend more time doing the PowerPoint. I wish I would have remembered to cite my sources! I always seem to forget. The goal I have to better improve my content is just more research. I will improve my delivery by practicing more before hand. The difference from my last speech was that I was not as nervous. I did not like using the PowerPoint because I feel like I end up getting into my PowerPoint and not focusing on the audience. The part that was bad and different was I said um and filler words a lot. That caused me and the audience to be distracting because I used to many filler words. I did not fidget a lot which was a huge improvement. I need to better improve my eye contact when I am using a PowerPoint, but I did feel I did a little better than last time with eye contact. Overall I would say my eye contact was about a six. I would give myself a B I did good but not awesome. I only mentioned one citation which was better than last time when I mentioned none but I need to cite four sources. Overall it was better than my last speech but there is still room for improvement and hopefully the next one will be even better than this one. Next time I plan on preparing further in advance so that way I am able to better focus on my organization and I can review it over and over. I had a lot of computer problems with this speech so that messed me up on having  enough time to fine tune my speech. I need to not use filler words, cite my sources, and just be more prepared. I kind of feel like it is impossible to prepare because once you are up there you can have practiced over and over and sometimes you just get to nervous and do a totally different thing than planned at least that is how it is for me. I will also try to just stay calm I felt relaxed but I did start to shake a little bit so hopefully next time I can shake that. I would really like to be able to just do one speech flawlessly so hopefully this reflection will help me better my next speech because I can see where I went wrong. I know that I will improve on my next speech and I hope that I do not make the same mistakes. I will focus on citing my sources and I will do much better research on my persuasive speech.