How well do you that you performed in the speech? How can you improve?

I think I did well. My topic met almost everyone’s favor and I think it’s really an appropriate topic. It can help me to persuade my audience easier.

I have all logos, pathos, ethos in my speech and according to the audience, it really affect them.

But Mr. Manno told me that I could still improve my pathos. In my speech I have my frustrated experience with the Internet as my pathos. And pathos is the emotion thing. But I didn’t show my emotion very much. I need to act more apparently so that my emotion will influence my audience. That’s one part I can improve.

The second one is about my intonation. I think I speak too fast to let everyone follow my words. This makes no help to persuade my audience but only let people feel confused about what I’m saying. This situation also happened in my previous speech. So it’s a really serious problem waiting to be solved.

In brief, speak slowly! Speak clearly! Use emotion to influence the audience! If I can make that come true, my speech will be better!

What did you like/dislike about the ‘speech’ unit and why?

I like to learn about how to use logos, and ethos. Especially the logos part, because I really like data, statistics, evidence and facts. I LOVE that sort of things. I feel really delighted when I speak out those things. People cannot be against to the reality! Actions speak louder than words! Ethos is also another good part. People cannot refuse to accept their own background information. Using their background to let them be convinced and make their ideology change is a good method in a persuasive speech.

The aspect, which I dislike, is pathos. I know that pathos is also the main way to convince my audience. Moreover, according to Mr. Manno’s suggestion, I should be more emotional when I was doing my persuasive speech. Apparently, I wanted to and I’ve planned about how should I act on the stage. But when I actually standing on the stage, I failed.  I’m not a good actress. I really cannot act! I feel so hard to express my emotions. I cannot act out what I feel naturally. It’s so weird to act exaggeratedly for me. I really want to be a good actress though.




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