Horse Slaughter Speech Analysis

I went the first day, so I don’t have a recording to look at. Even though I cannot see my speech I still realized some of my strengths and weaknesses. Some of my weaknesses consisted of: bad transition words, sounding shaky within the introduction, and time. My strengths consisted of: good movement, good tone, good statistics, and good eye contact. To start off my introduction I was very nervous, and I don’t know for sure, but I think the audience could tell. My transition into my first main point was not the best, but once I was in my first main point I was able to settle and really stroll through the rest of my speech. Within my speech I was able to incorporate many statistics to make my point why horse slaughter is needed although I am still
unsure if mine was an informative speech or persuasive speech. From my first speech to my last I definitely got a lot better at moving during my speech, and again in this speech I used movement to signal that I was moving on. I think my biggest downfall was the time. I had to take 2 main points out, so I had to make sure I talked slow enough to make time, which I was able to. I feel like the best part of my speech was my eye contact. I knew the material and statistics really which made it easy to look up, and engage with my audience. Overall preparing to this speech was definitely the hardest, not only to prepare, but also to give.