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Reflection On Experience Of Public Speaking

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Before coming to the United States of America I didn’t like public speaking at all and was always scared giving presentation or speeches. Whenever I had to give speeches in front of the class I would always get very nervous and would do a lot of practice in front of the mirror which was really helpful for me and helped me ace my speech. My teachers would always say I have a very loud and confident voice but the only thing I had to work was on my nervousness which led to lack of eye contact and not able to stand still while delivering the speech. But I have participated in a lot of shows and plays in school which boosted my confidence. When I took public speaking in the winter quarter I was really excited for it as I liked presenting in front of people and I wanted to …show more content…

When I first went to class we were told about what all we had to expect from this class and how we would first learn about who to prepare and deliver a speech. The public speaking book was really helpful as it taught us about what all we had to do from preparing our outline to delivering the speech. The professors lecture told us how to apply that knowledge. Which included how to stand which is the posture, delivery of the speech and how we had to make eye contact with the people. When the speeches started I was really scared for the first speech which was the informative speech. We had to inform the audience about a particular topic. I presented a speech on the topic “space shuttle “. Since this was my first speech I prepared a lot for it and was very nervous for presenting my speech infant of the class. I made my outline according to the guidelines provided and got a lot of help from the communication lab. They not only helped me with the outline but also helped me in preparing for the delivery of the

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