Processing A Speech: How Napsping Has Changed My Life

which I wasn’t expecting.  So on the side of beginning my BSN program this week and figuring all this out, I am finalizing a speech to give today in front of about a thousand people.  Here it goes for public speaking!

Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience that IF they choose to support a children’s charity, to support St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

I will be critiquing my persuasive speech on puppy mills. The issue of puppy mills is one that is very important to me, and I was very dedicated to my speech. My speech informed the audience of the detrimental effects that puppy mills have on dogs, possible solutions to the problem, and how the audience could help. My persuasive goal was to try and convince the audience to help put a stop to the issue of puppy mills by adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue organization, or contacting their local legislature about the issue. My speech had assets and drawbacks which were apparent in my content and delivery. My strengths included my PowerPoint, the emotional appeal, and the commitment to my topic. My weaknesses were the length of my speech, maintaining eye contact, and my verbal delivery. However, these can be amended using several easy methods, such as timing myself while I practice, writing notes on my cards to remind me to keep eye contact, and practicing more in general. The most vital aspect of my speech was that it exhibited strong features.

One of the things I noticed in my speech was how many times I looked at the screen. I didn’t realize how many times I looked at my prop until I watched myself on video. It was distracting and took away from what I was saying to my audience. Additionally, I feel like I could have improved speaking about the different experiments performed. I feel like they were rushed and I should have stuck to talking about only one or two experiments instead. With my time being rushed, I feel like I couldn’t explain as much of the experiments as I wanted to or as in depth. Lastly, I should have worked on the conclusion for my speech. I wasn’t able to come up with a good conclusion, so it felt as if I left some of the speech left hanging. I mentioned ethical issues performed in the experiments without actually going over it in the speech. Next time, I know I will come up with a solid ending and just wrapping up ideas I already went over in class. I know that for my persuasive speech, I will work on my eye contact, slowing down, and coming up with a solid ending.

Did you know that one in six people have at least one neurological disorder? And of those cases 5 percent are misdiagnosed. One of them being narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that is not rare but is often misdiagnosed. Today, I will talk about what narcolepsy is,the causes, the symptoms, and the treatments for narcolepsy.

Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech, the audience will understand what insomnia is, what

During the speech, I was also a good speaker in many ways. I had a good voice projection, my hand moment was consistent, I was always facing the audience and held eye contact, and had facial expressions to emphasize the importance of a topic. Right off the bat when I was explaining my citation saying According to the U.S Census Bureau “there are alone 5.7% Asian’s in the United States,” I was pointing my hands to make sure everyone was paying attention to the numbers. Another thing I did well during the speech was, that I kept eye contact with everyone during the speech

On Friday, March 31st I observed Northside Elementary School in the Brookville school district. I watched in a separate speech therapy classroom for students who also require special education. There was only one student who attended each session and the only professional in the classroom was the speech language pathologist, Miss. Haag.

While this article was written decades before the Internet became a widespread phenomenon, it is notable to say that Facebook is a perfect example of those who make their relationships a display. People are sharing large amounts of data with the world by revealing information on what they’re doing, where they are, uploading photos, and thus, it is a go-to for couples to show off their acts of affection. The Internet allows people to be more open about themselves and this would be in the case of the data double, which is said that this version is truer than the “real life” self . They are able to go forth and put out their relationships as something to be looked at and to be jealous or admired of.

After re-watching your speech, do you think you clearly explained a complex idea so that a non-expert audience could understand it? Was this a topic that will help your audience in some way? Why or why not? How could you have done this even more effectively?

The speech I am analyzing was given by Jon Bowers, a UPS driving and delivery trainer, in Atlanta Georgia in July 2017. Bowers was giving a motivational speech on why we should aim for perfection and not fear failure. He was giving this speech to an audience of listeners at a TED convention. The audience appears to be composed of a wide variety of age groups from multiple different backgrounds. The audience likely already had interest in the subject matter as they chose to attend speech knowing what it was about. The audience is rather large and likely contains several hundred people. The target audience is unclear as the topic is so broad that it can apply to basically anyone.

Preparing for the background speech was hard due to all of the criteria that needed to be followed. I had never previously had to give a presentation on a topic while giving both sides of the debate. Usually the assignment requires one topic to be chosen, and giving information on both sides of the argument without being bias. This proved to be difficult for multiple reasons, the first part being was the time. It was hard to make the slides and putting information on it knowing about the time restraints. One thing that I worried about was not being able to get my point across in the allotted time. The assignment in general was a little confusing because I didn’t know what I was supposed to focus on. Since we did not know the order we would be going in there was no way to tailor my slides appropriately. So I had to give background, while also giving two sides on the debate given to defund Planned Parenthood.

1. What did you did well? Why do you think you did well on these aspects of your speech? Elaborate.

I went into detail how by listening to my speech, they could possibly help a family member or friend in the future. Finally, my preview of the main points did a great job of giving a roadmap into the rest of my speech. I went into each of my three main ideas and talked about what I would be examining within each of them. I made sure not to use any evidence too early or give too much away in the preview. I simply discussed what would be later covered in the coming minutes. An example, one of my points was government involvement. I previewed that I would be discussing the difference between how government at the local and national level affected access and how they differed.

There is no question that after giving about four speeches, I have become a much better overall public speaker. In the beginning of the semester, I would tend to get nervous during some of my speeches and consequently the delivery of my speech would be greatly affected. If I had made a mistake, my level of nervousness would drastically increase and I wouldn’t know how to correct it. Although today I have improved on these aspects. Normally in order to control my nerves I try to think as positively as possible. This is critical because when I start to think even a little bit negatively then I severely hurt my chances of giving a good speech. Instead today, my main priority is to stay very confident and tell myself that I’m going to perform fine.