Oral Presentation

Oral presentation is my favorite. I know many people get stage fright, or just don't like talking in front of people, but I really don't have a problem with it. I've always enjoyed talking to small or large groups of people, being outgoing and meeting new people. I think one of the reasons I've always liked speaking out aloud is because of the classes I've taken. At Edison Community College I took a speech class to better improve my speech giving techniques and strengthen what I already knew. In the class we had to present impromptu speeches in which the professor would hand everyone an index card with a random topic and we would have to get up in front of the class and talk for 5 minutes about it. This technique helped a lot I think. We also had to present 3 main speeches, one informative and two persuasive. The persuasive speeches are kind of like what we are trying to do now in this class with paper 3. We had to choose a topic we knew a lot about or liked to talk about and try and persuade the listeners why our topic what the right or better one. I think the skills I learned will not only be advantageous to me in this class, but also in future classes or life scenarios.