Helpful concepts

The concepts that I take away from Public Speaking that werehelpful in preparing speeches were the organizational patterns we learned of,engaging our audience, and watching ethical guidelines. The organizationalpatterns we learned of were the most helpful perhaps because they were the mainpart of speeches, at least for me. Using organizational patterns to prepare myspeech outlines helped me figure out the main points that I wanted to presentin my speech, along with the information I wanted to attach to those points.Organizing the speech in this manner also helped me process my thoughts to formmy speech and the flow of it from going from the introduction, to the mainpoints, and the conclusion. Learning ways to engage our audience and watchingethical speaking guidelines was also helpful because it made the speech morecredible, when I considered who I was speaking to and double checking facts aswell.

What I take away...

The first day that I walked into this class, I am not going to lie I was dreading it with my whole being. Although I had experienced public speaking before I was not a huge fan. I got anxiety at the thought of even presenting in front of a large audience. The first time I presented which was the culture speech, I remember being so nervous, but once it was over I felt relieved. After surviving my first speech the others grew easier I’m guessing with familiarity to my audience, and the techniques that I was learning in class. I realized that the outlines we made ahead of time were a great way to organize my speech into main points, which made practicing and presenting easier. As I finish with this course I realize there isn’t much to be anxious about public speaking as long as the speaker prepares well and tries to understand their audience.

Favorite speech

Although all the speeches we presented in public speaking had different prompts and styles that taught me various fundamentals on the presentation of speeches. So far in this class my favorite two speeches were the culture speech as well as the demonstrations speech. I enjoyed presenting the cultural speech because it gave me a chance to reflect on myself and really narrow down what points I wanted to make about a specific cultural aspect. I also loved the presentation of the culture speeches as our first speech because it gave the entire class kind of  a way to learn something about one another and get familiar with each other. The demonstration speech was also another good one because we were required to not only stand there and present but demonstrate too, which helped  show how to multitask during a presentation instead of just standing up there to simply present. I liked how we were able to provide our introduction and take some time out to demonstrate as well.