informative briefing essay

Informative briefing essay
After several days of thinking, I decided my topic for informative briefing. At the beginning I wanted to talk about traditional Chinese food, and then Chinese history, and then the Chinese Zodiac. But finally I chose one child policy as my topic because it has been a controversy topic in China and all over the world. Besides, there has been a recent change in the policy. So I think it will be a good idea to talk about it to my foreign classmates.
During my research, I watched some videos on youtube. I also looked at websites of Chinese government. I realized that I do not really know much about this topic. The more I know, the more questions I have. For example, if a woman is pregnant with a pair of twins, will she be forced to pay the fine?
In the outlines that I wrote before I started preparing for the slides, I wanted to talk about some pros and cons about this policy. But when I finished the slides and started to rehearse, I found that there was not enough time to talk about it. So I adjusted my plan and decided to talk only about why we have one-child policy and what is one-child policy.
I think that I have done well on finding information about this topic. I did a lot of research and made sure I have enough knowledge about the thing that I want to talk about. Besides that, I think that I succeeded in making changes to my speech accordingly. One of the difficulties I found during my preparation is that it is hard to not put personal opinions into the speech, especially when the topic is very closely related to my life. But I managed to solve the problem by not trying to convey any opinions to my audiences. I am only in charge of giving the information and they can make judgments by themselves. It was also very hard to sort out useful points in the huge amount of information.
I would have changed the way that I ended the speech. The beginning seemed good to me because I felt the interest that is raised in my audience as I began the speech. The ending was a little rush. I would have told the last few lines more dramatically. I would have looked at the slides less often.
If I am going to do the persuasive speech on the same topic, I will find more information about this topic, including both the good and bad impacts of this policy. I will talk about how traditional Chinese cultural values influence people’s choices on having babies. I will talk about polices concerning family planning among different countries all over the world.