My Speaking Outline

The most challenging part of preparing my speech was converting my preparation outline into a speaking outline. Creating a speaking outline for our personal speech was easy because it was all experience, so that gave us the ability to form sentences in the moment. Regarding my speaking outline for the informative speech, I wanted to keep it true to the preparation outline since I had practiced it plenty of times. The problem was that I was not sure how long or how short it should be for this kind of speech. For instance, the body was more complex, so while rehearsing I had to glance at the body more than when it was time for my introduction and conclusion combined. I feel like condensing statistics is easy but remembering what the complete …show more content…
For example, I shortened a sentence into “Throughout – past friends trouble that my parents won’t hear about. Not a surprise of those who ended up in prison.”, and from here I like to keep the first word in because I feel in a better position to say what I had written down on my preparation outline. When thinking of ‘past friends trouble’, I recognize the trouble they did in my context meant, trespass, fight people, and shop lift. Overall, since it was from my introduction like my conclusion, I found it easier to condense as much possible because it took no knowledge to know my own experiences and topic. I used abbreviations throughout my body, and transitions for words like ‘because’ into ‘b/c’, ‘without’ into ‘w/o’, and even ‘Department of Education’ into ‘DOE’. However, shortening my body section I thought was good for certain points/sub points, but not for all necessarily. I consistently continued to rehearse my preparation outline to make a simple speaking outline in my favor from the repetition. When I had written, ‘Use is to less overcrowded prisons’ as a sub point for private prisons, that sentence caught me off guard while …show more content…
I benefited from this because I was able to speak in a conversational voice about my topic and recognize the structure. - The actions I took to prepare for this speech impacts how I will prepare for future speeches is by continuing to rehearse on the train because I found it helpful to get familiar with my whole speech. The structure of my speech was ok and I do believe I could’ve done it better. Therefore, I plan for our final speech to go ahead and go to SACC for assistance for my preparation outline. One of my peers said it was extremely helpful to have had the opportunity of developing a better preparation outline than he had first made. I seem to lack in structure and I see it in my sub points since it Is a critique that my peers mentioned since my first speech. I’ll continue to relate my topics and ideas to my audience because I love seeing feedback from people because they seem to relate or are engage to my topic. Perhaps, I’ll incorporate one or two testimonies next time because they are first-hand accounts of people, and we love to hear stories rather than consistent statistics. At last, I find that I need to articulate certain words better, so I’ll highlight them to practice by repeating them out