Demonstration Speech Evalution

When presenting a demonstration speech, I found that it is much easier to preform the speech if you are actually in the process of what you are demonstrating. Before writing my speech, I knew that demostrating how to build a grain bin would be difficult to talk on, but I felt that I had plenty of knowledge to go from. After my speech though, I realized that by choosing a different topic it would have made my topic a lot easier to talk upon, not having prepare what I would say so in depth. From that realization during the speech I believe my content was somewhat unclear to those who have no experience with grain bins. During the speech, I repeatedly would talk upon a subject not using the note cards and then be lost when I returned to them. As you can see from the video, my time was over the five to six minute range. Towards the end of my speech, you could sense that I was rushing what I was showing the class in order to cut back on time. When concluding my speech it was also undefined at when I was finished, after asking for question and hearing no response I returned to the computer to stop the video. A simple phrase of, "Thank you for your time," would have easily concluded the speech and given the audience that the speech was finished. Finally, during speeches a lot of people tend to do things with their body when they are not standing behind something, for myself it is easily notable I like to rock my body weight from foot to foot, which could be distracting for auidence members. In conclusion, I would rate my speech low, the content was unclear then rushed towards the end, my conclusion was unclear, I repeatedly got lost in with the note cards, and swayed my body when presenting. The topic of my speech was hard to demonstrate fully on, but there were many places where I could have improved on.

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