Informative Speech: Self-Evaluation

My purpose to give this speech was to express the importance of eating eggs, whole eggs including the yolks. I believe I did a thorough job of getting my purpose across to the audience because of the facts and percentages I presented about the nutritional content of eggs. Presenting the speech is always a challenge for me, my anxiety levels increase and I feel shaky. I did not feel very comfortable during my speech due to anxiety, but I did feel somewhat confident presenting it through practice and understanding the material I was presenting. I would incorporate some changes into my speech if I had to do it over again. I would improve my introduction and explain why I chose the topic of eggs, which is because I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian and incorporate eggs in my diet for protein. While giving my speech I would orally cite my sources. My goal for improving the content in my next speech is to provide more details, and for my persuasive speech provide more research as well. There are many things that I would like to do to improve the delivery of my speech. I would like to practice even more before the presentation perhaps it will help me lower my anxiety. While delivering my next speech I definitely want to have a stronger introduction. I want to gain the audience’s attention with an attention getter. I would also like to make my introduction stronger by clearly stating my purpose and thesis. I feel that I also use fillers in my presentations because of anxiety, so I would like to change that while presenting as well as not fidgeting or crossing my legs. Things that I specifically did different from my previous speech that were good were that I feel that with each speech my anxiety levels decrease, therefore I wasn’t as anxious when presenting this speech versus the previous one. I felt that I may not have practiced as thoroughly for this presentation as the previous one partially because I thought I could go off of the PowerPoint if I got lost. I realized that I should not use the PowerPoint as a reference but more of an enhancer for my speech.  Like I said before I feel that I fidget, cross my legs, and use fillers while presenting, this may be distracting for the audience. I also feel that my voice is often shaky while presenting which is something I would like improve. I am not sure if I improved these distractions since my last speech but I am more cautious of any distractions. I feel that one of my best qualities while giving speeches is making eye contact, but on this speech I would rate my eye contact at 6-7 because I felt that I used up some of my presentation time making eye contact with my PowerPoint then with the audience. I would give myself a B on this speech because I felt that I did many things well such as using factual content, making an easily presentable PowerPoint, giving the audience my purpose. I feel that I did not deserve an A partially because of presenting mistakes such as not being completely comfortable presenting which caused me to feel shaky, use fillers, and cross my legs; I also did not orally cite. I did not mention any source citations during my speech, although I had them listed under each PowerPoint. I felt that my speech had some positives and negatives, which I either did well or not in my previous speech. I did different things well in both speeches, but I also did not present as well as I could have in both for different reasons.