Blog 2 due: What makes a good speech? (Consider text as well as delivery.) Also, watch the video of your own first speech and discuss how well you performed. What did you do well and what do you need to work on more for next time? 450-550 words.

A good speech consists of not only proper delivery with strong diction so the listeners can understand you, adequate projection so all of the listeners can hear you, confident body language so the listeners are more engaged with a confident speaker, and proper emphasis on words so the speech isn't monotone and keeps the listener from being bored; but the context, it should have convicting detail that keeps listeners engaged and to think deeper about the point you are getting across gets your point across. In some cases turning it on a lighter side would be good to capture the listeners attention in a way. In my speech something i did well was projection and diction, i feel that it was easy to understand and hear what i was saying for the size of the room and crowd. The things that i need to focus on and work on would be to learn my speech, by reading it over in my head a aloud so when i take my eyes off the speech to engage the audience i am able to know where i am when i get back to my speech, which leads me into the next area that needs improvement, which would be engaging the audience, through eye contact which needed work by potentially engaging each audience member for a few seconds but in a sense is hard with a small audience  because of the sense of intimacy with a small room and minimal audience, but the is definitely room for improvement. third thing that needs to be improved is the tone and emphasis used, which primarily was monotone, I would need to emphasize words periodically to keep the speech from sounding boring. I would also would have liked to have a longer speech with a more engaging format within it so the audience would be drawn in to a sort of story, not so much someone listing off events; which was somewhat done throughout. The final thing I observed was that there is improvement to be made towards my body language by being more comfortable and engaged with the audience whether that be through keeping my body still or keeping my hands by my side. with the improvement of these things it would be greatly beneficial to my speaking to crowds of people.