Julio Trujillo-Reflection 1

Julio Trujillo-Reflection 1

Group 1 was super useful because they presented on the foundations of public speaking, how to speak and communicate your message effectively to your audience, how to build your confidence when delivering your speech, some tricks for the day before presenting, how listening is key to improve your public speaking, how to demonstrate mutual respect to the audience and how to adapt to them. They all did amazing and it's even more amazing when you consider the fact that they were the first group to present, which mean they had no prior example on how to do it and had to set the bar for the rest of us.

 

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Group 2 taught me mostly on how to find the right source (making sure is public), checking that my source has validation and how to summarize it. Also, on how to provide evidence by avoiding leaving it to interpretations and judgment, the type of testimonies and how to organize your speech (that even though right now it's not that useful because we are dividing the work with the members of the group in a future speech it will come in handy). Overall group 2 did good they were very prepared and knew their stuff, and Joshua who couldn’t present with his group did a memorable performance when he got a chance to present. This presentation is the one that stuck with me the most, this one guy talked about getting nervous and the tricks to handling it, taking big breaths and slowing down for a second to be able to get your train of thought together and focus on delivering the best speech possible. 

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My group (group 3) talked about how to deliver your speech correctly, how to create and develop your introduction and conclusion, language fundamentals (language being arbitrary, ambiguous, abstract and always evolving), language and culture and how to limit the use of jargons idioms etc.… the dynamics of public speaking and how language is irreversible, the visual language techniques, the types of presentation media, delivery method types, how to manage your voice body and audience. I realized that during my presentation I stumbled while speaking, probably mostly due to my lack of a rich vocabulary in the English language. I am very eloquent when speaking Spanish my main language, but when trying to create a speech I try writing down an eloquent monologue, but when the time comes to present my pronunciation becomes obvious and makes my speech seem lees professional or formal. I could practice reading a lot and rehearsing but with the time available to me at the moment, it would be a slow and long process, so I thought it would be better from now on to use less eloquent words in my speech, sacrificing the eloquence of my speech but gaining in return an easier monologue that won't be hard on me to pronounce and at the end will be more efficient in transmitting my message and resonating with the audience. A few minutes before my group presentation me and my friend Alberto got a lot of compliments and attention from the audience, because of our suits, we thought it would gain some audience points and it sure did so were going to suit up for the rest of our presentations.

 

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Also, I might use the screens in class to connect a laptop or USB and tell the audience to sit around in a way the screens are at their back, and I can use them to read if I need to but still be looking and engaging with the audience. Which was my main error, I got stuck reading off my tablet and didn’t engage much with the audience, next time will be different. In general, I think my group did decently good and there’s room for improvement. Group 4 started with describing the characteristics of an informative speech of to organize them and the types of informative speeches. How to use persuasive speaking using language, images values and opinions, the type of persuasive speaking and persuasive strategies. Ethos credibility, pathos the appeal to your audience emotions, and logos the logical reasoning like using facts and statistics. 

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They also talked about what is an argument and how to create a good one, with a claim, evidence and reasoning, and the 4th persuasion method mythos, cultural belief and values of your audience. Distance speaking and making media appearances, special occasion speeches like toast (very informative and useful), speeches of introduction and acceptance and eulogies to pay tribute to someone who passed away. I really enjoyed chapter 15, it talked about argument, how are arguments important and how to create a winning one, also I think that arguments play a huge role in public speaker I don’t like presentations where there is not a clear opinion supported by solid arguments and it's just a general talk. Group 4 captain was also impressive going off script and just saying what she thought but keeping it within the context of the presentation. In general group 4 did great and they had 5 chapters total while the rest of us only got 4 chapters, so they had to put in extra work and cover more content which then they had to summarize. In conclusion I would say that we all did a good job for our first presentation, a lot of us were very nervous but I think most of us will be less nervous now that we got some experience, I will also memorize my speech to have a smoother presentation next time. I’m looking forward to the why votes matter speech, I would like to get the emigration part of the speech, as an emigrant person I can give a good point of view on the topic. And because it’s something I’m already familiar with, delivering the presentation will be good and engaging and I will not do the same mistake of reading all the monologue off the tablet which would look less professional and engaging.  


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  1. https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/9dfec29bb17b46cabdd3f3b285368d0aSeptember 26, 2024 at 10:37 AM

    Very good. I certainly would like to see people using the screens at a table for a teleprompter.

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