Self-Evaluation Assignment 1

Self-Evaluation Assignment 1

The purpose of my speech was to demonstrate how to properly bath a baby whose umbilical cords had fallen off. I believe that I did not achieve the purpose of my speech as I did not present an effective speech. Ever since I began this course I have been nervous and scared about giving my speeches. The day of the speech I was real nervous and I know I was not alone in that feeling. I was not comfortable and confident and confident about giving my speech. I was not well prepared for this speech. I did not practice my speech enough to a point were I memorized my speech. I did not fallow the tips that the book gives us in preparation to our speeches. I knew my topic since I have a baby; therefore, I have some experience bathing babies. I did not do much research with my topic and should have done that a little more.

Giving this first presentation was real scary and I would not want to give it again (laugh!!). If I would to give this presentation again I would prepare my self a lot more than what I did. I would research some history about bathing babies, which I did not give. I would have practice more than what I did. I did not feel ready for this presentation. I was very unorganized with the speech. I left out a lot of information that I had to present and I skipped steps that I was to address. Nervousness took over my speech and it hurt me greatly. I found my self lost of thought and making up new things to say, nothing was in order. I could say that I was well prepared with my visuals, but not the speech part. A mistake that I make when speaking in front of an audience is that my voice volume is low. I have deep voice and because of that I tend to believe that I am being heard laud and clear, but this is not the case as I saw in my video.

A goal that I have set for content in my next speech will be giving more facts, speaking about experiences and generally talk more about my topic. I spent to much time demonstrating how to bath a baby than talking about my topic. For the next speech I have set goals to speak more loudly, clearly, talk more about my topic in depth, talk about the history of my topic and mention my citations in my speech. As I watch my video, I did not do anything of the things that I have mention. My eye contact was limited as I spent too much time looking down doing the demonstration. The first thing I noticed about my speech was my voice, it was to low. The next thing was I notice while watching my video was my eye contact with the audience, it was limited so I give myself a score of 6. I also noticed looking at my note cards for to long and I even dropped them. This note card part was distracting in my presentation. A main thing that I forgot to include in my presentation was my oral citations. Not once did I present my audience with a citation. Based on what I saw in my video I would give my self a grade of a C because I lacked organization, I did not speak much about my topic and I spent the whole time doing the demonstration.