Self Evaluation

The purpose of my speech was to hopefully inform you all about genetically modified soybeans so that you would be more aware of them. I do not think I did this as best as possible because I took too much time giving to many side stories. I think giving real examples is the best way to help everyone knows the scale of genetically modified soybeans but I did not use my time wisely. For this reason I think that I did not achieve my purpose well enough that I could have and next time I will have to pick and choose and maybe reorganize my speech so it’s at maximum efficiency. When I was standing in front of you guys it felt a lot better than sitting down and waiting for my turn. When I got up there I felt better because you guys all looked like you were paying attention (and I thank you for that) it made me feel really comfortable and confident. I don’t know if it was you guys trying to look aroused or that I just gave an exciting speech ( I doubt that) but it really made me feel a lot better standing up there. If there was one thing I could go back and change it would be my facts I decided to present. I should have chosen more interesting facts for my delivery of the speech because they fit my personality better and left out some of the cold hard facts. Sure they were supporting my subject but I noticed that most of us been sitting through a lot of cold hard facts and were tired and that putting something more interesting in would liven everyone up more and would help everyone pay attention more. As for the content of my speech like I said I shouldn’t give to many examples or choose examples more wisely and also I think that adding more variables to my speech (not just talking about Monsanto) would give a bigger grasp and picture to what I’m talking about. That is if I have enough time to talk about the variables or at least mention them. As for Delivery, it’s kinda hard to work on because I don’t give that many speeches alone with PowerPoint so that was totally new to me. I think next time I’m going to be very general with my power point next time and only put more interesting pictures to capture the audiences eyes, unlike last time, and very few typed words. This way I can focus on the delivery of my speech because I just didn’t feel all that happy about clicking to the next slide and talking about it and then clicking to the next… It’s just that one picture is worth a thousand words right? So if I reflected off the picture than it would make a better delivery because now the PowerPoint directly relates to what I’m talking about. Again I’m not sure about this idea but it’s probably something I’m going to try to see if it’s worth putting in my next speech. Moving along, this speech was good in the sense that I got to do a presentation on something I was passionate about but also bad that I was not feeling the PowerPoint like I mentioned. I feel like this speech was neutral and I probably performed average compared to my last speech. Because of that my eye contact was probably average also because I was to focused on that PowerPoint. Because I did nothing to exciting I probably deserve a C but I’m glad about the B-. I did not use time wisely and my PowerPoint along with my speech was nothing special. I think I came out confident enough about my topic ,which is probably the only good thing but I know I can do better. Then there’s citations and I think I only got one cited correctly when I had three that I was going to do. The other citations I just said I got from a video when I did not say the whole name or director of it. Lastly, this speech was a success in my opinion. It wasn’t better than the last speech but I learned a lot and I know I can do better on my next speech now.