Second Speech Evaluation

As for the second time around, I am glad to say that I did correct myself and my mistakes from the last presentation. I reviewed over my "needs improvement" on the comments paper from my colleagues from the last speech. I made sure to improve as much as I can, and I am glad to say that I greatly achieved the purpose of my speech.

Luckily, this time I was the fourth person to present. Versus the last time, I was actually one of the last few people to go! As I got up to the front, I felt very confident, because I felt that this subject was going to catch my audience's attention effectively. Money in general is what everyone deals with everyday, and so counterfeit money seemed like a good subject to catch their attention. As I had said before, I went up to the front with a lot of confidence. More than I did from the last speech, because this time I was aware of my mistakes. Also I was familiar with how the environment is like, and how the whole speech process was going to go. If I had to do it over, I definitely would not change my introduction or my conclusion. Unfortunately, I stuttered at the beginning. I had my citations highlighted, and so I kept trying to mention the high lighted part too early!

One goal that I accomplished through the content of my speech was the conclusion. I remembered during my last speech, I did not sum up my conclusion very well. I had left out the part of reciting my main points. Although this time, I had just enough time to summarize my main points again, and also added a clever ending to wrap up my speech. I also remembered to use transitions to make my speech flow better. I took the time to present my three main points during my introduction.

As for the deliverance of my speech, from both of my speeches I thought that I presented very clearly and loudly for the audience to hear. For improvement, I limited my speech fillers. I remembered during my last speech I kept repeating the phrase "what not". Even I noticed that I kept saying that. So this time, I avoided that phrase completely. Which was successful!

With both speeches though, I made an error by talking towards the Power Point, again. On the other hand, with the second speech, I presented my conclusion very well. I included the main points, and added a good ending to finish up my speech. Between the last two speeches, I can see that I really improved. I knew more of what I had to focus on and so I tried to present that a lot better the second time around.

As for a distraction, I don't think I did anything that was distracting. Except for one comment on a colleague's paper. Someone mentioned that I had "hand gestures". I don't realize that I'm doing weird distracting hang movements, but I'll try to eliminate that also in my third upcoming speech. Other than that, I don't notice anything distracting. As for eye contact, I think that I had did that well. Despite the mistake of facing the power point a few times. Otherwise, my eyes were focused on the audience the whole time. I would give myself a 9.

For the mistakes that I did, such as stuttering in the beginning and talking towards the Power Point I thought that I was going to get a B. And also I think I went over time a little bit, which I knew would have docked off some points. I know that I did better than a C, because I did include citations, and I left out my speech fillers. I did not focus too much on my Power Point. In addition I used transitions which made my speech flow a lot smoother. I set my standards low so when the results do come back I won't be too disappointed or too over confident. Fortunately, I am very satisfied with my grade! I did better than I expected!

I remembered the citations being a problem with my last speech, so I made sure to include them in the second speech. From watching the video I did cite two citations. Once in the beginning introduction. The other citation was during my explanation about one of the security features on counterfeit money. That was one of my improvements since the last speech.

This second speech was definitely better than my last speech. By watching myself over again, I can see my improvement significantly. I made sure to fill in the mistakes that I made during my first speech, and made it better in my second speech. I felt that the audience did understand my main points for both of speeches; although with the transitions for my second speech it made much more understandable.