Rhetoric and Civic Life | Annabelle Yi

I remembered from the Civic Artifact Speech there were certain areas I wanted to cover and practice for this talk, one of which was eye-contact. The activity in class where I had to read out the lyrics of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody definitely helped with focusing where my eyes went. For the content of my speech, I went over all the facts and times in my head in order until I felt I could recall all the information comfortably. I would look over my essay and add interesting tid-bits into my essay and incorporate those into my talk. I wanted to avoid the "valley of awkwardness" I mentioned in a previous blog post and I think I actually did overcome it. I managed to go through all my information rather smoothly and cover all of my important points within five and a half minutes. I would benefit more for future talks if I practiced more in front of live audiences and not just repeated the talk in my head. I think in hindsight I should have also practiced my talk with my v...