Tracking Your Improvement

Use what you’ve learned this week to respond to the following:

• Go back to Week 2 and watch your first speech again. Use the online rubric to evaluate your first speech. Share yourevaluation.
• After you complete Assignment 4 and the self review, compare your evaluation to the one for Assignment 1. What skills improved the most?
• When you review your peers’ feedback on your speeches, do you notice any common themes? What does that say about the course and your own development?

Answer preview

In the review of my performance, I have found that I have improved significantly. Among the skills that I have developed the most are in body language as well as engaging with the audience. In public speaking body language is very important as it allows the various people in the audience to understand the message you intend to pass on. I have improved immensely in keeping eye contact with the audience, and this helps improve their concentration…

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