Concepts

Probably the biggest difference and concept that communications 20 has helped me to develop was time management and speech preparedness. I had taken a communications 40 class prior to this class, but was more focused on the arguments and rebuttal rather than my actual presentation. Especially after the first speech, I better prepared myself for the following speeches to allow a more fluent speech with less word fillers and more eye contact so that overall the things I did were extremely effective. I learned also how to incorporate narrations, stories, personal experiences and how to have an effective introduction. Up until this class, I had always kept my speeches to improvisational needs, mostly because that was what I was experienced in. The problem with that, which I quickly learned, was that improvising is really good for shows, jokes and action, but in speeches where you are required to be informative and credible, it just isn't enough. So with that, time management, speech preparedness and research were all concepts and ideas that I had developed to further improve my overall speech presentations.