Friday, March 13, 2009
Critiquing our Informative Speech
We have completed our informative speeches. It was our first speech. It is difficult sometimes for students with the first speech to orient themselves to thinking about communication as a process. We need to move past just "getting up" and apply the content and delivery criteria addressed in class for effective communication. Please work on the suggested areas of improvement in the next speech. Post your critique in this blog post. Be sure to include the speaker's first name in the comment. You need to give three strengths and three improvements. I am not interested in reading superficial comments. Please use depth in your comments. You are required to give your assigned speaker thoughtful suggestions on how to improve the needed weakness or improvements in their presentaion. Unsupported comments or those comments lacking details will receive a zero or a deduction in points for this assignment.
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Person being critiqued: Steve
Steve presented the benefits of exercise and why it is his passion. Throughout his speech, Steve held a conversational tone and was able to keep the audience engaged. In addition, he had good posture, held steady throughout the entire speech, and maintained strong eye contact with the audience. One setback to his presentation was that he did not have an attention getter or a preview. Although the speech was well organized, he lacked strong transitions and his grammar was poor. While he mentioned the names of three people he was citing, Steve failed to acknowledge the source and date. Lastly, his Power Point had strong visuals; however, more pictures would have made the presentation more effective.
In Alex's speech he strongly emphasized his passion for Rutgers football and showed great knowledge of his passion. Alex held a very conversational tone throughout his speech. He sited everything well on his visual, which had a lot of good pictures and information. On the downside of his wonderful speech he did read off the powerpoint a little. He kept my attention which I also liked, but he did jump back and forth a little which confused me a little bit.
In Becky's speech she had a very good attention getter, she cited her information correctly and had great backup on all of her points. She also had good eye contact and brought in her own personal experience to the speech. However, she did read off of her power point a couple of times for a long period of time. Another thing that needs improvement is that she had great sources, but did not have much to say in her own words. Her speech was mostly information from other people. Overall I enjoyed her speech.
In Georgie's speech his passion was soccer. He made great eye contact around the room and spoke very clearly.He also had good visuals, they were very catchy and caught your attention instintly. Georgie also made his speech very entertaining. He made us laugh by making jokes throughout his speech. On the downside, he did not have that much information and he did not cite as he spoke. He also made the mistake of not using transitions.
Corey's pesentaion had some good things in it, along with some bad things. I feel that she didnt clearly tell us her three reasons, and she could have worked better on her eye contact. On the other hand, she kept my attention, and seemed like she really loved her passion, and she was having fun with it.
In Amanda’s speech she talked about traveling to Hawaii. Overall, I feel Amanda did a good job. Even though her power point did not open that was really something she had no control over at the present time. I felt her opening was very strong. Even though she had good points she forgot to site, also, she lacked eye contact, I felt she looked down a lot and at the back wall. She had poor transitions which led her to use a lot of umms. Although like I said she had no power point she gave you a great visual of how beautiful it is in your mind.
I was assigned to critique Danielle's passion speech on Italy. Danielle had very nice annunciation of her words. Danielle also has a pleasant tone to her voice however with that said I do think that is one area she could improve upon because her tone did not inflict an emotion for the audience to know how she felt. I liked when she spoke a phrase in Italian and feel she sparked some interest in that moment. An area where I thimk Danielle can improve her public speaking skills is to convey a tone in her delivery in order to evoke interest from her audience
I was assigned to critique Lisa's speech. Rite from the start of Lisas speech she spoke very clear, you can easily hear her through out the room. Lisa made excellent eye contact with the whole class. she wasnt just lookin at one person, she made sure she looked at every individual person in the room. Another great thing Lisa did was cite all her reasearch. All her pictures and facts were cited. Some things Lisa needs to improve on is better transition's. Like she would just say um, when she could be using a good transition word. And another thin Lisa needs improvement on is trying not to use "UM" so much.
I was assigned to critique Sheryll’s speech. I could clearly tell Sheryll was very passionate about her topic, the family dinner table. Her message was clear and shined though her whole speech. Sheryll made excellent eye contact with the class she looked extremely comfortable. The opening of Sheryll’s speech was very good she used a joke to help bring her point across. Sheryll made very interesting points during her speech and it really made me think how important the family table truly is. I really enjoyed Sheryll’s speech it was very interesting and really kept my attention. Over all I feel she did an amazing job. The speech was well organized. The only thing I was change would be the power point presentation, during which Sheryll did not stick to the six by six rule. Other than that she did a wonderful job.
I was assigned to critique Sheryll’s speech. I could clearly tell Sheryll was very passionate about her topic, the family dinner table. Her message was clear and shined though her whole speech. Sheryll made excellent eye contact with the class she looked extremely comfortable. The opening of Sheryll’s speech was very good she used a joke to help bring her point across. Sheryll made very interesting points during her speech and it really made me think how important the family table truly is. I really enjoyed Sheryll’s speech it was very interesting and really kept my attention. Over all I feel she did an amazing job. The speech was well organized. The only thing I was change would be the power point presentation, during which Sheryll did not stick to the six by six rule. Other than that she did a wonderful job.
i was assigned to critique marty's speech. he had nice visuals and good information, but nothing to back up his word or anything. he stood up straight and was looking everyone in the eye. then he never cited like i said he didnt have any transitions and i didnt really see citings under his pictures. he didnt fidget or anything annoying to catch our eye so that was good. then last he had a kinda short speech in which it wasnt in the time limit
I did not critique a speech as they were all taken up, but i will critique on my own behalf. I would like to think I had a few good things that stood out for me regarding my speech. Being loud and clear and giving detail to the audience was one, as that helped them understand where I was coming from and how my passion comes about. Another was giving much visual aid in my powerpoint with the pictures which were credited as that gave the audience a real vision on what I was talking about. But with all good comes bad and I believe the areas where I was lacking in include not giving enough eye contact, as that is always a must. Not staying on topic was also a problem for me. A few umms here and there also appeared in my speech as that never sounds professional like. But all my negatives can easily turn into positives by more practice and experience.
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