Start/Stop/Continue for Speech #2: Navigating Genres

Start/Stop/Continue:

Start:

• Using Prezi software opposed to google slides that Im already very comfortable with. In order to step outside of my comfortability zone 
• In my opening statement I only stated my first name even though my first and last name were presented on the first slide of my presentation
• Embracing the pause opposed to filling in no verbal voids with nervous ticks like “uhhms, likes and uhhs”
• The nervous ticks were very evident in this speech even more so then the last speech which is not good in terms of improvement. By speech number three I would like to eliminate almost all if not all nervous ticks from my speech. I personally think the best way to do that would be to practice more
• Being more efficient with my hand gestures. Although I feel as if I did a pretty good at using hand gestures both this speech and during speech number one. There was a fifteen second increment in the middle of the speech where I just put my left arm down to my side while i used my other arm for gesturing and it just looked awkward

Stop: 

• Using nervous ticks in my speech. I can not emphasize enough how much I want to exclude those from my speech not even in public speaking but from my rhetoric altogether
• At one point in the speech I was talking about one of the conventions and I called the voices conventions a “genre” when it was a convention. I think that was just a product of nervousness 
• The above example and at one other point in the speech I was talking about the script a radio DJ would use in helping himself stay on time while talking on the radio. I said “On time” and then stopped and repeated myself and said, “In a timely manner” those suddle imperfections I would also like to exclude from my speeches

Continue: 

• I think I did more things right then I did wrong with this speech. I made consistent eye contact with the audience for the whole presentation 
• My speaking for the most part was fluid with only two mishaps in five minutes which is solid progress 
• Both me speeches have been right on time, the first speech was two minutes and thirty seconds and my navigating genres speech was five minutes and thirty seconds exactly. Staying in a timely manner has been a strong suit for my pubic speaking 
• Practicing my speeches prior to going up and presenting them has helped me substantially it has helped me with memorizing my speech and has helped me know when to implement hand gestures
• Memorizing my speech has been one of my best attributes in speech number one I was one of the three presenters that did not use a note card 
• Projecting my voice across the room which I think shows the audience that you are confident when you are both loud and fluid
• Cracking jokes to keep the audience in tune with what I am saying. Both of speeches have been relatively comedic at points in the presentation and I think a good laugh helps the audience stay in tune with what you are saying and whatever point you are trying to get acorss/convince them of
• During my presentation I did not write everything I was going to say at every bullet point in my presentation which I noticed people tend to do it and when people do that it tends to undermine their speech because they are just reading what they wrote and not elaborating on every point. I would just write one word to a couple words on the slide and then spend anywhere from five to twenty seconds elaborating on every point which makes the slideshow itself short and simple. Rather then having twenty five slides with your whole presentation written out on it 

Moves That I Liked: 

• Daisy who did the college tour guide speech talked about the, “Walking Backwards” move and how the college tour guide will always ask the group he/she is talking to tell him/her if anyone is behind them or if they are going to run into a tree or biker etc. 
• Nick LaQuay gave us an initial overview of what the speech was going to be about. I thought that was a very good tactic. You tend to see that a lot of in TED talks and motivational speeches 
• Kyle Ignatius who did his speech on the visual sports/news website Barstool. Told us about one move the group of guys do when they are all talking smack to each other they call it the, “The Hater Ball” which I found amusing and kept me into his speech 
• Jacob gave us a move with his motivational speech(which he dressed up for, which was also a solid move!) where he told us about an acronym he had came up with on how to keep going and persevering I forget what it stood for but the acronym was A.M.E.N.D. Which not only ties into the theme of speech but acronyms are more often then not implemented into motivational speeches