Self-Evaluation

Before starting my evaluation, I must apologize to everyone for not giving my feedbacks to you guys, and I promise that I will seriously write feedbacks to you next time. In fact, because my mind was concentrating on my presentation, I mistook these white papers’ purpose, and I thought there were notes for myself. However, I really appreciated for those who gave their feedbacks to me, and I will earnestly regard for these advices to improve my speech’s skills.

Overall, I believe that I have achieved about eight percent of my speech purpose for four reasons: an interesting history of rice balls, an efficiently delivery (enough loud voice volume with a little accent,) a well-organized content, and effective visual aids. On the other hand, there were two main drawbacks: over time and missing one main point. If I could do this speech again, I would set up the apparatus properly, and cut out the extra information to complete the speech requirements.

I, as an ESL student, always feel a little nervous in public speaking, because of my pronunciation. I was comfortable this time if comparing to the first presentation. Because I got the same audiences and the same classroom, I felt I just talked to my friends at home- a little exaggeration. However, I believe I could be more comfortable if I present my speech early because more waiting time, my nervous cells are growing more.

I didn’t watch the video but I could recall and image that my smile was the first thing in my delivery. Smile is the basic communication technic and the human common body language in the world. If we want to be closer to other people, giving a smile could effectively communicate to them. Moreover, I would like to my eye contact on the 9 scale because I really care for my audiences who were like my customers. The most respect way to our audiences is the eye contact even though some Asian cultures have no regard for it.

I might use one or two citation for the history of rice balls, and I think this was the only section I should use citations. The rest of the sections, which are demonstration and personal experience, are not necessary for me to find from other sources. However, I will cite some credible facts and statistics to enhance the material’s credibility in my next speech content. Because I have presbyopia, I couldn't use notes during speech. Fortunately, we will use power point for the next speech, so it will be easy for me to focus on my audience reaction.

The timing was the only thing that distracting my attention. When I saw the time of five and thirty seconds, I was totally mess-up. Consequently, I was hurry up to close my speech without conclusion. This was the fatal mistake that I have made.

To sum up, if I have to grade myself, I would give a B for myself because I made two fatal mistakes. First, I did not accurately control my time because I didn’t completely prepare the demonstration apparatus, according to some classmates’ feedbacks. Another factor that I over used the time was giving extra information about the rice ball’s history. It was mess why I did not notice these two problems at home while I was practicing. After carefully recalling these two mistakes, I realized that I had already opened these containers covers before I was practicing at home, and I was holding the visual aid on my both hands while I spoke fast and low my voice without a pause. According to the environmental effect, I think I should practice my speech at home as I am in the classroom. Or, I should reduce one minute for facing an uncontrollable situation happening.