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Alexis Ehrensberger reflects on her speech preparation, delivery, and feedback, noting her practice methods and anxiety about public speaking. She felt confident during her delivery and received positive feedback on eye contact, speed, and poise, but recognized the need to improve her volume and emotional expression. For future speeches, she plans to focus more on topic brainstorming and incorporating more life into her delivery.

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Commemorative Speech Reflection (2) (1)

Alexis Ehrensberger reflects on her speech preparation, delivery, and feedback, noting her practice methods and anxiety about public speaking. She felt confident during her delivery and received positive feedback on eye contact, speed, and poise, but recognized the need to improve her volume and emotional expression. For future speeches, she plans to focus more on topic brainstorming and incorporating more life into her delivery.

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Alexis Ehrensberger

Commemorative Speech Reflection


Dr. Wender
March 7th, 2025

1.​ Speech preparation

I first started preparing my speech by writing an outline of topics that I wanted to hit on. Once I
had this outline, I then started slowly thinking about what I wanted to fill the spaces of my
speech. I then just started practicing any time I was alone and had a second to spare. I would
practice in the shower a lot as well as in my car. My favorite place was to practice in the shower
because I would say the speech out loud and I was doing it while standing, so this helped to
gauge what that would feel like. While practicing my speech I would try to hit all the PVLEGS
traits while speaking. I especially practiced the gesture part as I know during past speeches I
have given I usually feel very stiff. Once I was very confident in my speech, I started practicing
it to my roommate. I decided on not having a picture behind me for my speech as I felt as if I
would look at it too much. I felt as if my speech preparation was very good and walking in I felt
as if I knew every single word. The only thing I wish I would have done is more brainstorming
on topics as I felt that I could have had a better one that I had more of a connection with. As I
was watching others perform, I realized I should have done it on one of my siblings. For my next
speech, I will most likely practice in the same way; however, I will spend more time on the topic
and brainstorming.

2.​ Speech delivery

I have really bad anxiety and public speaking in even small amounts is usually hard for me.
Walking in, I was scared that my face was going to turn red or that I was going to forget
everything. In my opinion, I actually did surprisingly well. I felt as if I knew the speech and this
made me less anxious while giving it. Sometimes when public speaking I feel like my heart starts
beating fast which makes breathing weird, but that didn’t happen during this speech. I felt like I
kept my composure and was even able to incorporate most of the PVLEGS. Overall, I did better
than I expected. I also think my expectations were low to start as during the zoom practice I had
not really practiced and I know it did not sound good. I also think the one on one aspect might
have scared me.

3.​ Speech feedback

Upon reading my speech feedback I have gathered that I mostly did well in eye contact, speed,
and poise. These were the ones that I had mostly practiced, so I definitely expected this. I noticed
that my areas to grow were mostly all about life. Most people commented that I was too quiet. I
hadn’t even thought about this aspect of speech giving. I think I was speaking at a conversational
level, but I can see now that I just need to raise my voice. I also agree that life was lacking. I
think I was almost too calm to where it seemed like there was less emotion going on. For the
next speech, I am going to try to incorporate the life aspect a little more. I will try to add more
fluctuations in my voice or maybe try to seem a little more upbeat. I think this may also naturally
lead to being a little louder.

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