Self evaluation

In my opinion, my demonstration speech was a success. I thought I did many things well, but I also think that I had a couple of places where I could have improved. When evaluating yourself on a speech that you had just presented you need to look at several things to consider how you did. These things are the speech itself, how you presented yourself, your visual, the time of your speech, your introduction and conclusion. These key points to a speech are the basis of your evaluation and if you perfect them it will be a rare occasion that you receive a grade that you are not content with.
I had many strengths in my speech that really pulled it together. These strengths consisted of the speech itself, the visual, and the time of my speech. The speech itself was perfect amount of time and presented very well with a lot of content. I had a very good visual with the power point, putter, and golf ball and I used these visuals very well. To have a good speech good visuals are important, especially a demonstration speech because the quickest way for people to learn things is by watching someone actually do it themselves.
The weaknesses that I had in my paper were few, but important. Although I wouldn’t consider my introduction and conclusion weaknesses I would say there was definitely room for improvement. They were both on the short end with little content and little enthusiasm. This was important because having good enthusiasm and a good introduction with that enthusiasm is key in getting people interested in your speech. As for my conclusion, it was rushed because I knew I had been up in front of the class for quite a while and tried wrapping it up quickly, a big mistake. It is a lot more important to deliver a good conclusion and be a couple seconds over the time than rushing your conclusion. The final thing that I think I could have improved on was my overall enthusiasm and eye contact. Although I was going off my power point rather than note cards I still needed better eye contact with the audience to get them involved. As for my next speech I will continue to do the things that I did well this time, and hopefully improve upon my weaknesses.