After our lovely Washington
dc trip, followed the not-so-lovely speech assignment. Well at least in my
experience. I thought it was extremely helpful to make such a formal presentation
because I was able to see where I really needed to work on this semester:
public speaking; I also enjoyed hearing what everyone else had to say about the
museum and how they approached the challenge of the speech. I began planning my
speech out I made many lists of key points I thought were important enough to
talk about when comparing and contrasting the museums. I also made a list for
each museum individually, on how the materials and structures used help represent
the buildings and what they contained. Narrowing it down to one I thought
worked really well, I wrote the speech down in more detail.
I
thought the presentations given by the speaking center were a little helpful,
especially the second one when they gave us a packet of information. It helped
me remember the structure of a formal presentation; I thought this important
because it can be applied to the presentations we have to give in class for our
final projects. I do not think I would go to the speaking center for help but I
did appreciate what they did.
For
my next presentation, I want to plan a little better; I have never been one of
those people who can just “wing” a speech at any given time. I will also
practice a lot more so I can be more familiar with the flow of the words and
not get choked up or nervous when presenting.
