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Self Reflection- Call to Action

Self Reflection: Blaire Davidowitz

Call to Action-Abolish the Electoral College

I feel like I was very prepared and gave my speech to the best of my ability.  One of my strengths was definitely showing a great need for the abolishing of the Electoral College.  I gave two problems, absentee ballots and the fact that individual votes do not count and an example for each.  I definitely informed my audience of problems, and if anything I spent too much time on this part. The action that I proposed nearing my conclusion was very detailed as well. I supplied my audience with a complete itinerary, with times and everything, and told them exactly what to do and how it would help.  I only wish that I had spent as much time or even more time on this part as I had with my need step.  It was my shorter allocation of time to this part of my speech that really deferred from it in the end. 

I also feel like I used persuasive strategies well, especially with my need step. It was this need step that later led into the action.  Many different things contributed to my overall ?action? step, especially the way I spoke to my audience.  I made them feel like they could really help, and using words like ?we? and ?us? made them feel more on par with myself.

My strengths of my speech were definitely my expressive and emotional input into my speech.  I did care what I was speaking about and my tone let the audience know this as well.  I feel that ultimately this emotion let them trust me and eventually believe me.  A major weakness was that I did not spend enough time on my action step.  I should have lengthened it by at least a minute and made the need step a little less long.  But, other than that I feel like I did a very good job with my speech. 

Posted at 11:04PM Dec 04, 2007 by DAVIDOWITZ, BLAIRE in Self Reflections  |  Comments[0]