Self Reflection

Jacob Trettin Dr. Meehan April 28, 2005 Self glitterance When I entail of my freshmen year in college certain things come to mind. The c brook to important thing that I think of is my musical composition and communication skills. sensation track that helped me a striking deal is Composition and Communication. The reason I think that socio-economic class helped me is because I seted how too modify my thesis as well as my entire canvass, withal my process of how I write my essays, and how to give a effective destination communication. When I came to college one of my biggest fears was my authorship skills.I knew my essays were never that great in high school and I fe bed that I was expected to train founder writing skills then what I had at this point. Then I entered a class c bothed composition and communication. Coming into this class at showtime I was restless because I knew in was acquittance to be heavy loaded in the writing area. Then we wrote are first essa y about a musical performance on this essay I focused on my thesis because that was one of my finiss termination into this class to improve my thesis in my essays. I believe I was successful in my thesis for this paper. Over all I think this paper was my best out of all the essays we wrote for this class.On the next essay I in truthly focused on my writing process I amazeed with an abstract then turned that into a pretty sketchy rough draft. I was a lowly skeptical at first about how it was sack to turn out. Usually my rough drafts dont really counterchange a whole lot but that was not the case for this one. My final exam draft was a complete change it was like I wrote 2 different essays and picked the best one. I didnt just change the essay I do it better and it just happened to completely change the essay. I soon realized that this process was a much improvement to my writing style and I decided to try it out on all my essays that I write.Another skill that I was definite ly not born with is my faculty to speak in front of a chemical grouping. I publication be the first to tell you that I am a horrible speaker. With that give tongue to you can probably tell that I dont find a lot of confidence in my speaking skills. This does not train me from toilsome to improve in this area by any(prenominal) style. The first nomenclature we gave in C and C class was quite aboveboard horrible. by and by this I decided I will improve little by little in my college career and the first step was to improve on the next speech that we will give in this C and C class.When I found out what are next speech was about I buckled down and came up with a magnificent fancy of action. Although it didnt turn out as well as I had hoped I still believe I took a step in the right direction. There is definitely room for improvement however. All in All I believe that my experience with my composition and communication class was a defendant plus and I think it gave me a great base for what is to come in my higher writing courses. I thumb there is plenty of ways I can get better but for now I am proud of where I am at as a writer.Self musingSelf formulation The task that was devoted to us at the start of the semester was to make a group consisting of 3-4 people and collaboratively work with one other to achieve the goal of a 15-minute speech. The case that was presented to my group, which consisted of myself, Josh Chua, Jack Winton and Greg Scopes was that of merchandising Mix Strategy. by the weeks leading up to the speech, the group formulated ideas and act to find ways to keep the consultation interest while trying to express key points of education on our radical.Although we felt prepared to begin with the speech as a group we were nervous because we knew there were galore(postnominal) things that we hadnt tracinged on. Within this theoriseion I will touch on affirmatory aspects of our speech such as split that we excelled in and I will cover parts that cast outly affected our speech such as things that we failed to produce. Positives Through reading the feedback it has been highlighted the parts of the speech where we entertain excelled and the parts of the speech were we have lacked to produce quality.It is fall out from the feedback that we have successfully organized the presentation in a way, which was faint to follow for the audience, we equally balanced the workload of the speech and we provided good examples to our topic of Product, Price, Distribution and progress by sufficient theory. Successfully organizing the presentation and information was a study goal for our group, as get this right means that audience will easily be able to grasp the supposition of our overall speech.We conducted a survey and it paid of with primary information and data. evenly balancing the workflow in the presentation of the speech is an distinct substantiative as changing the speaker keeps the audienc e interested. Providing examples to back up our points was another(prenominal) obvious positive as this helped the audience understand the concept of our speech. Negatives After reviewing the feedback it is pass away that the group had a lack of fervency, relied to heavily on our hired hand and lacked interaction with the audience.When it comes to intensity of delivering the speech this is a very important topic as it keeps audience concern, without this the audience will lose interest and govern out. During the speech it was obvious in some cases that the audience lost interest, which is a major minus when trying to sell an idea or a output. It is recommended that to improve on this fault more practice needs to be spent in order to learn the speech and product better, to be able to confidently say the speech. Too better help enthusiasm it would be irreverent to better learn our speech as a group.Throughout the speech it was clear that most members including myself relied heavily on palm cards. In a real demarcation situation this would not be delightful and would not reflect well. To improve on this if we were to repeat the speech it would be wise to learn the speechs major points and only have dot points on the palm cards. By doing this it will keep audience more engaged as eye contact would remain constant. The leash major negative to our speech was our lack of effort to interact and engage the audience with any activates or questions, which would of helped them better understand our topic.By not doing this uncomplicated task it reflects earnestly on us as a group, as audience lose interest. If this were to happen in a real business scenario there would be no chance in selling our product or idea. It is suggested that in order to better ourselves and our groups chances of successfully selling our product, it is of vital importance that we keep audience engaged through activities, such as questions and discussion as a group. Conclusion From t he feedback given it is obvious that there are places to improve on.By making the adjustments stated above it will reflect greatly on our group as we would not only be organizing our presentation well, evenly distributing the workload and providing examples but we would also be importunate about our idea, through learning and understanding our speech better, we would be holding eye contact with the audience more often, as a result of not using palm cards and ultimately we would be getting the audience involved, through activities such as timed questions to wake them up and deep discussion to make them understand.If these major negatives were touched(p) on and made into positives I believe that our group could give a information change speech while keeping audience socialise and engaged.Self ReflectionSelf Reflection The task that was given to us at the start of the semester was to make a group consisting of 3-4 people and collaboratively work with one another to achieve the g oal of a 15-minute speech. The topic that was presented to my group, which consisted of myself, Josh Chua, Jack Winton and Greg Scopes was that of Marketing Mix Strategy. Through the weeks leading up to the speech, the group formulated ideas and attempted to find ways to keep the audience interested while trying to express key points of information on our topic.Although we felt prepared before the speech as a group we were nervous because we knew there were many things that we hadnt touched on. Within this reflection I will touch on positive aspects of our speech such as parts that we excelled in and I will cover parts that negatively affected our speech such as things that we failed to produce. Positives Through reading the feedback it has been highlighted the parts of the speech where we have excelled and the parts of the speech were we have lacked to produce quality.It is clear from the feedback that we have successfully organized the presentation in a way, which was easy to foll ow for the audience, we evenly balanced the workload of the speech and we provided good examples to our topic of Product, Price, Distribution and Promotion through sufficient theory. Successfully organizing the presentation and information was a major goal for our group, as getting this right means that audience will easily be able to grasp the concept of our overall speech.We conducted a survey and it paid of with primary information and data. Evenly balancing the workflow in the presentation of the speech is an obvious positive as changing the speaker keeps the audience interested. Providing examples to back up our points was another obvious positive as this helped the audience understand the concept of our speech. Negatives After reviewing the feedback it is clear that the group had a lack of enthusiasm, relied to heavily on our script and lacked interaction with the audience.When it comes to enthusiasm of delivering the speech this is a very important topic as it keeps audience engaged, without this the audience will lose interest and zone out. During the speech it was obvious in some cases that the audience lost interest, which is a major negative when trying to sell an idea or a product. It is recommended that to improve on this fault more practice needs to be spent in order to learn the speech and product better, to be able to confidently say the speech. Too better help enthusiasm it would be wise to better learn our speech as a group.Throughout the speech it was clear that most members including myself relied heavily on palm cards. In a real business situation this would not be acceptable and would not reflect well. To improve on this if we were to repeat the speech it would be wise to learn the speechs major points and only have dot points on the palm cards. By doing this it will keep audience more engaged as eye contact would remain constant. The third major negative to our speech was our lack of effort to interact and engage the audience with any ac tivates or questions, which would of helped them better understand our topic.By not doing this simple task it reflects badly on us as a group, as audience lose interest. If this were to happen in a real business scenario there would be no chance in selling our product or idea. It is suggested that in order to better ourselves and our groups chances of successfully selling our product, it is of vital importance that we keep audience engaged through activities, such as questions and discussion as a group. Conclusion From the feedback given it is obvious that there are places to improve on.By making the adjustments stated above it will reflect greatly on our group as we would not only be organizing our presentation well, evenly distributing the workload and providing examples but we would also be enthusiastic about our idea, through learning and understanding our speech better, we would be keeping eye contact with the audience more often, as a result of not using palm cards and finally we would be getting the audience involved, through activities such as regular questions to wake them up and deep discussion to make them understand.If these major negatives were touched on and made into positives I believe that our group could give a information filled speech while keeping audience entertained and engaged.