Submit at least 300 word typed self-evaluation in essay form. Please do not submit answers to questions like a survey. Rather, demonstrate critical thinking by providing analysis and evaluation of the strategies used for developing and delivering a presentation. You may want to seek honest feedback from your audience beforehand. For this Self Evaluation, do the following: 1. Read over the "Analysis Questions" related to each of the four criteria: Invention, Arrangement, Delivery, and Style. Know what to look for and listen for. 2. Re-watch the video of your Speech after it is done and ready for submission. 3. Take notes about the strengths and weakness in your speech regarding each criterion. Use the "Analysis Questions" to prompt your attention to particular features of your speech that may be relevant. 4. Compose your Self Evaluation based on the observations you made in the notes by commenting on all four criteria with a paragraph per criterion. For each paragraph, keep this question in mind: What is at least one strength and one weakness for each criterion? (not simply answers to all the Analysis Questions) Identify one specific thing you did or said for each criterion; Consider elaborating on: How will you try to play to this strength in future presentations? What will you plan to do differently next time to improve this weakness in future presentations? 5. final paragraph answer these questions: What was the overall evaluation of your own speech? If you were to do it again, what would you change? What will you do differently in future presentations? Self-Evaluation Analysis Questions Your Invention (what you came up with to say and include) How well did your communication make the topic relevant for and relatable to your audience? This is not the same as whether your audience already saw it as relatable or relevant, but rather what you, as a speaker, did to encourage your audience to see the relevance of your topic to their lives. What strategy worked best? Unit 6 Speech Self Evaluation Analysis Questions How well did you establish your credibility in the eyes/ears of your audience? How well did you help your audience understand "why now?" and "so what?" How fresh did you make your topic seem for your audience? How well were you able to bring something new to bear, to consider a new perspective on often heard topic, or to find new motivation to change thinking or behavior? How well did you present evidence? Did it directly support the point you were making? Did you prepare you audience to hear the evidence you were about to present? Did you follow up on how that evidence with an explanation of its supportiveness? How illustrative were your examples? Did you use plenty of vivid and concrete examples (versus general and abstract ones)? Did you explain how those examples supported the messaging you intend them to support? Did you keep statistics to a minimum? Did you round them off to make it easier for your audience to understand? Did you say where they came from? Did you explain what the statistics meant and how they were derived? Did you explain how they support the point you made? How well did you select when to quote versus when summarize or paraphrase? Did you always tell your audience those sources? When quoting, did you say "quote" and "end-quote" so you audience knew when your own words ended and began again? How did you make the sources of your evidence seem credible in the ears of your audience? Did you choose published sources and avoid web sources? How well did you reason with your audience (rather than reason at them)? Your Arrangement (how you put your message together) How well did the first thing you said get your audiences' attention? Did your attention getting device actually get attention? How well did you prepare and motivate your audience to hear your thesis? Consider how well you built their interest off the attention getter, how well you set up your message by explaining background for it, and how well you established your credibility. How clear was your thesis presented? Was it simple and direct? Did it establish a clear position and direction for the presentation? Did you simply and explicitly tell your audience what your main points were going to be before you proceeded into the body of the presentation? How identifiable were your main points during the presentation? Was the organizational pattern of those main points easy to identify? Were the main points directly supportive of the thesis? How well did your connectives transition between main points? Did each call attention to the fact that you were starting a new main point? Did each indicate the relationship between the new main point and other main points? Did you quickly remind your audience what your main points were before you proceeded into the rest of the conclusion? Did you reassert your thesis? How well did you answer the so-what question to provide closure in your conclusion? Did you end with a memorable last word? Was it a mic-drop line? Unit 6 Speech Self Evaluation Analysis Questions Your Delivery (how you presented your message in body and voice) Did you communicate with confidence? Did you speak with enthusiasm for your subject? Did you have a relaxed but professional posture? How effective did you use body language/movements? o Did you effectively use strategic and/or dynamic gesturing? o Any distracting or fidgety movements? Playing with something in hand? o Were you overly inhibited (standing in one spot the whole time)? Were you too stilted and still? o Did you move too much (pacing back and forth and back and forth and back)? How well did you maintain eye contact with your audience? o Did you rely too heavily on your speaking notes, notecards or outline? o Did you focus on the camera instead of the screen (if exclusively on Zoom)? o Did you try to share eye contact with everyone in the room and hold for a few seconds or did you only scan quickly and then look away? o Were you ever "talking" to your visuals instead of to your audience? o Did you single out certain people or certain parts of the room? o Did you look at the ceiling or floor too much? How well did you use your voice? o Did you have enough vocal variation to make you seem conversational? Not monotone or like a metronome? o Did your cadence enhance your speech? o Did you pronounce accurately? o Was your articulation crisp and clear? o Did you include strategic pausing and avoid awkward pausing? o Were you loud enough for everyone and the recording? o Did you speak at a reasonable and varied pace? Not too fast? Not too slow? Your Style (how you chose and used words and language) Were your main points, connective/transition statements, preview and summary statements, and thesis stated with simple and direct sentence structures? Did you emphasize simple sentence structures avoid complex and/or compound sentences? In other words, did it sound like a speech instead of a written essay? Did you effectively repeat key words to make main points identifiable to your audience? Did you include oral citations (clearly identify the authors of your sources from which you got evidence) throughout the speech? How vivid and descriptive were your word choices? Did you appeal to the senses and paint pictures with your words? How well did you incorporate figurative language to add color and meaning to your message? How well did you use figurative structures to add rhythm to your message? How accurate were your word choices? How accurate were your language structures (grammar)? Did you keep "jargon" to a minimum, and explain any jargon that you did choose to use? Did you avoid slang that was not appropriate for your audience? Did you avoid disfluencies (verbal fillers): "um," "uh," "okay," and "you know"?