Being Physically Active

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Persuasive Speech Self-Evaluation I will be doing a self-evaluation of the persuasive speech I delivered on how being physically active will help fight the battle against obesity. In my speech I covered three main topics. The first topic I covered was why we should be physically active. The second topic I covered was how easy it is to be physically active. The third topic I covered was the benefits associated with being physically active. The overall goal of my speech was to raise awareness on obesity and persuade my audience to be physically active. I believe this presentation was by far my best one. Through out my essay I will highlight my strengths, my weakness and ways to improve. Despite still being nervous to talk in front of an audience, I would like to point three strengths from this assignment. The first strength is my ability to inform my audience with all the main points and mention all four of my primary sources. After reviewing my speech I feel that I was following my outline very well, which kept me on topic. My second strength during this assignment was doing the research. Obesity and physical activity is a hot topic and there is tons of information on the web. I’ve known about the battle against obesity but the research was able to provide me more details to better explain the topic. My third strength was that I took the time to practice my speech over and over again. I strongly believe that some if not all of my strengths were able to help me deliver my speech in a proper manner; however, there are some weaknesses that did not allow me to deliver a perfect speech. My first and biggest weakness would have to be using word fillers when I would forget a line. Despite how many times I rehearsed my speech, there were some lines that I could not memorize. My second weakness was that I didn’t have a lot of eye contact with the

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