Evaluation

I was surprisingly impressed with my performance as far as our speeches went. I fully intended to do a terrible job(unintentionally, I just did not have very high hopes for the experience) but after we were through and the anxiety was gone I felt like everything went much more smoothly than I anticipated. .I think I got the whole point of my speech across very clearly, and I also felt much more confident than I had felt during our last speech.
In retrospect, I do wish I had practiced orally citing my sources a little more, because when it came down to it I just presented my topic instead of remembering to mention what my sources were. I will work to avoid this in future speeches. I would also like to work on my nerves, as I distract myself with my own hands shaking so much. In my next speech I think I will try to make more eye contact with the audience. To improve the content in any speech, the best thing to do is more research. The more informed a person is about their topic, the better and more fluid the speech will be.
Like I mentioned, I am not sure if the audience noticed, but my hands were shaking a lot through the duration of my speech. I would like to rectify that in the future. I felt like the more my hands would shake the more nervous I would start making myself. I would also like to try to eliminate the use of 'umm' and 'uhhhh'. This will be my main goal in my next speech. Even if the content of the speech is good, the presentation must also be good and done with confidence for the audience to respond well!
 As I also mentioned earlier, my source citations were not what they should have been. I unfortunately only mentioned one source during my entire speech.. I got too nervous and anxious about my speech and had a momentary lapse of proper brain function. My eye contact could definitely be improved upon. For this speech specifically, I feel like this was a bit of a difficult subject to judge because some people, the actual demonstration of what they were teaching would get in the way. For me, I know I was looking at my demonstration way more than I was connecting with and focusing on the audience, which is what I should have been doing during my speech. The only part of my speech that should have been performed better was the oral citation. I do wish I had cited all of my sources.  The fact that the rest of is went so fluidly made me only wish that the rest of it would go as smoothly as the start of it did. Overall I earned a grade of a 'B' which was what I got. I did a reasonably good job but there was still a lot of room to improve for next time, and I plan to do just that.
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