Self Evaluation- Persausive Speech

This speech was the hardest one for me because I had to make people see how I interpreted things and that was scary. I did my speech on hunting in the U.S. I was pro. I feel that I achieved the purpose of my speech for the most part. I saw what the rest of the class had to say about my persausive value and was a little surprised that they were so generous about it. It made me feel like I really reached some people. I was so nervous right before the speech that since it was a controversial subject, everyone would look at me funny and not listen to what I have to say, but then when I finally did my speech, that all fell away and I was confident that what I was saying related to the audiene in one way or another. I was just worried that I would forget to say something important. In fact, at the end, I went over the time limit and just had to wrap things up quickly so I didn't have the full dramatic ending I wanted.
If I had to do it all over again, I would try to shorten my personal story in the introduction, and I would definatly make sure to set aside enough time, and a reminder, to turn my slides in for power point visuals. I know it looked terrible that I was taping paper to the board, but I figured it was better than not having a visual at all. This speech was definatly different than my last speech because it was controversial which made me a little hestitant even though I knew what I was talking about, but one good thing was that this speech was more open to interpretation so it really challenged you to address the audience correctly. Also, compared with my last speech, I said "um" a lot more and I think that was because my visual aids made me self conscious becuase I knew they were crappy and I would say my eye contact was a 7/10 this time becuase there were more statistics to read percisly. All in all, I would give myself a B or B+, which is exactly what I received because my visuals weren't that great and my eye contact was less than usual, but I had good, creditable information and gave emotional appeal to the audience. When compared to the last speech all around, I felt that I did better on the informative speech through my confidence, interest, and visuals. However, in both the speeches I did a good job at sighting all four sources while talking.
All in all, after all the speeches we have done through out the semester, I think I performed better on the informative, then the persausive, and finally, the demonstrative speech. I mean, I know they were very close in the end, but I just felt better about the informative speech and did not go over the require time limit as much as the persausive speech. With out a doubt, however, the demonstrative speech was the worst because I was not use to getting over being nervous, it was the first speech I had done in FOREVER, and it was complicated to get in to the routine of things.