Helpful Concepts

I thought that the lessons going over the Monroe's Motivated Speech was really helpful. The book has it much more complicated and it seems as though we need more than what you expected. It was good that Carol decided to go over it. Also the talk about speaking towards the power point was very helpful. I personally did not know that this was a bad quality when giving a speech. I thought it helped the audience to stay more focused because the speaker is up there moving around. After we had that talk from the second speech, I was much more aware of it. I caught myself turn to the screen once for a split second; although right after I turned back and began to talk to the audience. Another important factor was also just knowing about the eye contact. Going over this problem over and over again reminded me what to focus on more. So that greatly helped me to improve it all in my third speech.