Self Evaluation Assignment #1

1) I think that I achieved the purpose of my speech fairly well. I had gotten through all of my points that I had, given enough information on the history and also demonstrated in good efficient order.
2) I felt as comfortable as I ever do when speaking in front of class. I was a nervous wreck! I was pretty confident in my speech because I did the research and work as well as practiced it many times but I am still nervous about talking in front of groups of people.
3) If I had to do it over again, my main fix would be my sources. I think I could have done a better job citing them and in the midst of my nervousness I forgot to use the sources or give credit to them during my actual speech. To fix that problem I would write them or a quote even on the note cards.
4)My one goal that I have in improving the context of my speech is to actually mention my sources during my speech. Like I said in the question before, I didn't do a very good job mentioning sources in my speech.
5) One goal I have in improving the delivery of my next speech is not to be so nervous because it make me overuse the non existent word "UUMM" and forget things. Maybe I will practice saying the speech in front of someone next time instead of by myself so that I can get used to someone watching me and that way I wont be as nervous.
6) After the speech, the first thing I noticed was that it was a lot faster than I had practiced it at home. When I practiced the speech at home, I was just under five minutes and worried about taking too long, however, my actual presentation was right on the dot of four minutes. I think that is because when you are speaking in front of the class, you tend to rush through it more.
7) I think I have a tendency to cross my legs and put my hands in tight fists while presenting because of the nervousness but other than that I don't think I did anything distracting during the speech.
8) On a scale of 1-10, I would give myself a 9 for eye contact. I wasn't amazing at it but I think I did pretty well. I memorized most of the speech and information so I didn't have to look down at my note cards much at all.
9) I unfortunately mentioned only one source, me. If that even counts.
10) I would give myself a B grade because I did a good job at getting my information right and my demonstration good but what killed me were probably the source citations. I maintained good eye contact, had a good outline and tried to keep my voice from shaking during the speech.