Up until now, I have been stuck on
where to begin my speech, but seeing other people making those speeches gave me
some ideas and the push that I needed to start writing out my outline.
Sometimes, writing the introduction can be the hardest part, so video 9.1 was good
review. What I got from the video, which was more review than new information,
was that the most important aspects of the introduction were to make sure you
have established the purpose of your speech to the audience, written a strong
thesis, go over the main points, and then also to grab the audience’s attention
with something interesting, funny, or witty. In video 9.2, the video went over
how a conclusion should be executed. The main elements of a conclusion are a
review of the main points, reinforcement of the purpose you said in your intro,
and then giving the audience closure on your topic.
13.1A video was a speech designed
to inform the audience about techno music. I thought the speaker did well
overall. He had good eye contact and he had visual aids, which really helped
the audience understand his topic better. In 13.1B Janine had an interesting
speech on the Kodak camera. She made very good use of her visual aids. I also
thought it was interesting how she took a picture of the audience, which served
as a nice attention getter I thought. I’m not sure that I heard her thesis in
her introduction, which it is important to not skip that. In the 13.1 USE IT
video, Katherine gave a speech about “kosher”. The one thing I noticed about
Katherine was that she looked at her note cards a little too often, but she
made up for that in other ways, like by sounding credible in her speech and
having a good introduction.
Overall, these speeches were not
really any new material, but they did serve as good reminders for what we need
to be working on right now for our upcoming speeches.
I completely agree with what you said about getting ideas from the videos this week! I was also kind of stuck, as I usually am before I start writing out a speech, but something about watching other people actually do an informative speech themselves really inspired me for my own speech writing. The techno speech was especially helpful to me, and I found myself writing my speech in my head as I watched it. Even though the introduction and conclusion part was review, it gave me good ideas that are very specific to the speech I am about to write, for all intents and purposes.
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