BSA-1

Purposive Communication: TF 2:05-3:40pm

Self Evaluation Paper

Giving extemporaneous speech in front of class and afterward observing the next speaker like
an audience in a pageant contest is a fun, helpful and interesting experience for me. I want to
deliver my message successfully according to what I feel about the topic. I am worried and
praying that it should turned out good and accordingly to what I imagined. I have questioned
myself what I feel about my topic and relate it to myself so I can be able to answer and have a
unique speech whole heartedly which allowed me to assess and prepare the topic and how to
execute my speech. While entering the class, I am very excited. I felt the excitement and I am
imagining myself talking like a good public speaker which makes the speech fun and interesting.
It gives me clearer view on the areas which a person like me is lacking in order to enhance my
skills and adds knowledge about the correct and more effective public speaking. Now I know
that public speaking is not joke and very bored kind of activity. It is not a joke to stand up and
speak in the stage with a lot of people waiting to year your speech. You will not know if later
you will stutter or not and or have that people might laugh at you like you’re like a kind of idiot
standing like a stump at the stage. And that worried me because I’m that kind of person that
before the speech, I have a lot of things and information I want to say but me being nervous is
eating all I want to say that makes me kind of dumb and embarrassing. That’s why I’m saluting
those shy people who stand up and fall in line of those who will speech first. Its their courage
that I want to give appreciation and merit. My fear happened. I was not able to day all the
things I want to day correctly and according to my plan buy I’m still happy. I’m happy that I am
able to spoke there and speaker understand what I am implying in my speech even though I
failed in making it too long and don’t stammer. By that experience and failure, I am able to
determine my weakness and motivate myself to do it better next time and enhance my skills
and capabilities as a public speaker. Someday, I will be able to speak up all that I want to give
voice to without my dear. My failure doesn’t mean it will remain as a failure and I failed as a
speaker but it serves as my lesson and remembrance that in the past I was like this, a coward at
stage and how I have changed and improved myself as a better person.

At the past, I had a number of opportunities to speak in front of other people because we have
some school activities related to public speaking. Usually it was related to retreat and
demonstrating and sharing what a person feels about himself and the people around him,
happiness and sadness moments, and forgetting it after the said activity. In this class, I have not
introduced unfamiliar things like sharing something that is worthwhile the time entertaining
and getting in front of the audience although the objectivity and mission of this subject gives
me fresh ideas that I will need in the future. I only not learn and experience how to speak well,
but I also learn what tools to be used in drafting and crafting my message and what words and
tones should I use depending on the quotations and ages of the audience.