Public Speaking Pre-Course Analysis

Overview Winston Churchill once said, “A good speech, should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” Public speaking is a skill almost everyone in today’s world needs to develop to succeed. There are people that are born without stage fright and know how to manipulate a crowd to their pleasing. For most of us, we’re not accustomed to public speaking and it takes multiple speeches to gain a sense of comfortability in front of a crowd. In this pre-course analysis, I’m going to talk about my past speaking experiences, strengths and weaknesses, my goals for this course, and how I plan to use public speaking in the future.
Past Speaking Experiences Surprisingly enough I had to take an identical course my last semester of high school. This was due to the last thing we had to complete before graduating, a fifteen to twenty-minute speech about life in high school. In my public speaking class, we had to give multiple speeches on similar subjects such as the persuasive speech and informational speech. All …show more content…
When it comes to public speaking, I do not enjoy it like the majority of young people would agree. Despite the fact of dissatisfaction, I power through it because it’s nothing that will leave me stranded in fear. One of my greatest strengths is that I am audacious and don’t get scared to take the risk. Another strength I have is that before I give a speech I am well educated on the subject and have a good sense of topic knowledge. Although I have quite a loud voice part of my nervousness tends to dampen the sound and causes me to speak more quickly than I would like. A weakness that I struggle quite often with is staying on topic, I have so much information bundled up in my head that when I start speaking I tend to jump from one topic to another without completing my thought on the