Sawyer Ohman

CMM110-A

9/25/23

MY BEST ADVICE: The best advice I gave was to Kit, their speech was about bettering their personal self. I enjoyed her speech but they needed to work more on the delivery of their speech. Of course it was one of the first times they had read the speech especially to an audience, but it didn’t flow. The speech was very well written but Kit found it was difficult to read the page out loud word for word to the group. We later decided as a group through discussion to make different prompts which would have further bullet notes for us to talk from. This will make our speeches sound much better to our audience. 

WHY IT’S MY BEST ADVICE: This was the best advice that I had given during peer review because we could all individually apply this to our own papers and future speeches. As I had mentioned before, making a bulleted list rather than attempting to read something word for word will make the speech much easier to process for the reader. If the reader has an easier job giving the speech the audience has an easier job taking away key elements of the speech. All my group members agreed that a bulleted list is much more effective to prevent the reader from staring at the screen while presenting.

BEST ADVICE FROM MY PEERS: My group members suggested to me that I use personal stories to better connect to my audience. To better say it, my speech was well organized and made some good points, but it didn’t make a lasting impression on the audience. This is because I didn’t include any stories or personal experiences for my audience members to relate to. If the audience can relate to the speaker they are far more likely to take in the information being presented. 

WHY IT’S THEIR BEST ADVICE: This was the best advice that I received because connecting with the audience is the core of a speech . I had to be reminded that it wasn’t just a paper that would be read by my professor, it would have to be something that my peers could relate to. Of course there are the cliches of being broke college students but what story or time of my life could I bring into my speech in order to make a better connection with my classmates.