Written Self Evaluation

All my life I have been asked to speak at events, introduce people, and accept awards.

So I thought being in this class really didn’t feel any different, but I was wrong. I guess it was the pressure of being graded is what got me, and having a time limit didn’t make it any better. Being in this class has taught me that I can overcome any obstacles as long as I apply myself and push myself pass my limit. My expectation for this class was to help me communicate better than I do now, because becoming a nurse I need good communication skills. I thought delivering a speech was going to be like playing my trombone in front of people. I found that it takes time and practice and it will become easy to do. When playing my trombone if I mess up I can easily cover it up, but when doing a speech people can easily tell when you mess up.

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My speech topic for the Tribute speech, was about us paying tribute to nurses because they save life’s. My central idea was, “Nurses are there to provide comfort and to make sure you feel as at home as possible. They should be kind and enjoy doing their job.” For my second speech, they informative speech, the topic was, when getting a car would it be better to lease it or own it. The central idea for this speech was, “Choosing a car is already a hard thing to do, but deciding on whether to buy it or lease it is harder”. My last speech was the persuasive speech, and my topic on this one was, are Pitbull’s really that vicious. My central idea for this speech was, “A Pit bull’s personality is built on nurture, not nature.

With that being said, Pit Bulls are as dangerous and mean, or as playful and safe as their owner allows them or trains them to be. For instance, my dog Coco does this thing where when I’m sitting on the floor she’ll come over and hug me, it’s so cute.” In each my speeches I did my introductory devices that were used was to grab the audience attention, and try to relate my subject to them by asking them certain question to get them involved and to make them feel a part of my speech. All of my speeches, in my opinion was effective, because it got the audience involved and makes them more interested in what I’m about to say. From the beginning of the semester to the end, I feel like my introduction has gotten better and stronger throughout the semester. If we compare the very first speech I did to the very last speech I did , you should be able to see a clear difference in how I changed my approach, my introduction was more attention getting, and it has a stronger argument. Something I did well in my informative speech introduction was using what people love to get them to understand the relevance of why nurses can be hero’s like superman, or batman.

Something that I could have done better in my introduction for this speech would be to make it more effective to the audience. When it comes down to my second speech I really did not like anything about that speech it felt like I rushed it, it was a horrible speech, and didn’t even meet the required time frame that it was suppose to be. I could have did a lot of things better to improve my second speech, like it should have had more information to make the speech longer , and I could have chosen a better topic because I really wasn’t interested in the one I chose. On the other hand, I believe my last speech was my best speech, I enjoyed talking about and the class was very interested in the subject, it was the perfect time frame and was the best speech I delivered.During this class I learned that there are different types of audiences. There is five type of audience in public speaking, first is the negative audience which disagree on your topics and here where the speaker responsible in changing their perspective, secondly is the positive audience which an open audience that eager in accepting and know new thing, thirdly is the divided audience which half will favor your speech and the other half not because of their different perspectives.