After watching my persuasive speech video, I noticed that I wasn’t maintaining enough eye contact as I should have. Mainly when I looked at the board to show the audience something it made things awkward. My stance was fine but I feel like I should have been closer to the audience instead of distancing myself. The change that I notice is, I was more relaxed when talking in front of an audience. I feel that the forced experience of talking in front of an audience several times helps to overcome social anxiety greatly. I feel more confident in my ability to speak normally in front of crowds now. I think my speech was fairly successful in reaching its point but could have been better.  The lack of passion throughout the speech is something that could have been better. Showing the audience that this was something I really meant would have helped to boost my persuasive abilities. After watching other classmates give speeches, I think that it is really good to use humor as a way of keeping the audience’s attention. Also the attention-getter of a speech is very helpful in keeping attention throughout the rest of the speech. The outlines that were written for this course will help me in the future to build well-crafted speeches. I can use the basics of speech giving in everyday life show evoke different emotions. Knowing how to approach large groups on people at a time when talking will help on a job or even in a club. The most important skills taken away from the class was eye contact and stance. Maintaining a confident look all the time when you’re in front of an audience is very hard and this class offered me the opportunity to work on that. Also maintaining the right pitch and using vocal variety is also good. These will help with making sure that I won’t be seen at boring when conversation one-on-one with someone of in front of an audience.