Friday, October 28, 2016

The presidential speech students did recently is a different speech compare to what students have done in the previous months. Presidential speech focuses on pathos and how to organize the ideas clearly and transmit it to audiences. Students not only need to focus on their own voice, sound, standing position and eye contacts, they also need to really focus on the content they have to deliver an effective presidential speech. By writing and presenting a presidential speech, I learned a lot. First, I understand how to have an effective ending which will increase the effectiveness of the speech. Usually, by using inclusive language and restate my main thesis and points, I will establish an effective speech that will refresh the memory inside audiences. Another important point is through the speech, my use of pathos was strengthened. In the first draft, I did not stress many patho techniques which made my passage will not appeal to reader's emotion. However, after several peer reviews, I understand the importance of pathos so I add several stories of my fake relative of how they struggle to pay a bill and connect the dead children to the issue of gun control to further strengthen the policy I propose. On logo level, I understand the importance to use credible sources to add credibility to my speech. Also by using logic conversion, I can further strengthen my points and present it clearly to my audience. However, I have already understood the importance of logos but my problem is the overuse of logos which might have a negative effect on the audience by thinking that I am a robot .This time, I only use one source per point to reduce the numbers of evidence I use which I believe, have a more positive effect. On presenting side, I still have some issues I need to improve but is better than last major project. First, clearness, sometime I spoke words with unconfidence and cannot speak words clearly to let readers understand due to English is my second language. This time, I believe I perform better on the clearness of speech delivery. Still, I have a long way to go after I have seen how other American Native speakers deliver their speech with confidence. On the other hand, tones, I often start with a strong opening but my tone will continue to slow and turn into a monotone. For this issue, I still believe I am better than the first time I am delivering my speech. After several practices with debates and speeches, I might have performed better on delivering a speech with a variation of tone to attract readers. Overall ,I believe I have learned a lot from this class on content and presentation skill. However, I still need to focus on how to improve my tones and the clearness of speech due to nervous and unfamiliar with English. To improve that, the only way is to continue having debates and different public speaking tasks which will reduce my stress and practice my speaking skills with other people. 

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