Journal #11: Self-Evaluation for Speech #3
Allow me to begin by saying that although my speech was not perfect, at least I only needed one take to recite it and not three. The technical mishaps I had with my second speech were definitely absent from this one, which was delightful considering how stressful that was. When it came to preparing my speech, I got all my resources and notecards together in a timely manner. I had my outline written out on time as opposed to the previous speech, so in terms of planning, there was an advantage to be had. However, I do think my main issue is that I did not practice the speech just as much as I had wanted to. It is very apparent when you actually watch the speech just how lost in thought I was, so much so that I skipped a lot of the introduction, almost all of it. This was partially due to lack of practice and also due to the fact that I didn't add the introduction on my notecards, assuming I'd just have that part down. Clearly, I...