Self Reflection

Jacob Trettin Dr. Meehan April 28, 2005 Self formulation When I hypothecate of my freshmen year in college certain affaires execute to mind. The most important thing that I think of is my writing and communication readinesss. One sort out that helped me a abundant deal is Composition and Communication. The reason I think that class helped me is because I understanded how too remedy my thesis as surface as my entire searchs, also my process of how I write my essays, and how to take hold a effective actors line. When I came to college one of my biggest fears was my writing skills.I knew my essays were never that great in high school and I feared that I was expected to nonplus expose writing skills then what I had at this point. Then I entered a class called composition and communication. Coming into this class at beginning I was nervous because I knew in was going to be profound loaded in the writing area. Then we wrote are first essay about a musical performance on thi s essay I focussed on my thesis because that was one of my tendencys going into this class to repair my thesis in my essays. I think I was successful in my thesis for this paper. Over all I think this paper was my outgo out of all the essays we wrote for this class.On the contiguous essay I tangiblely focused on my writing process I started with an outline then move that into a pretty sketchy rough draft. I was a small-scale skeptical at first about how it was going to crook out. commonly my rough drafts dont really change a all clump but that was not the case for this one. My final 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 complete that this process was a much reformment to my writing style and I decided to try it out on all my essays that I write.Another skill that I was definitely not born with is my ability to speak in front of a radical. I exit be the first to govern you that I am a horrible speaker. With that said you can in all probability tell that I dont hire a lot of confidence in my speaking skills. This does not stop me from move to improve in this area by whatever means. The first terminology we gave in C and C class was quite frankly horrible. After this I decided I depart improve wee by little in my college career and the first step was to improve on the next speech that we entrust 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 plan of action. Although it didnt turn out as well as I had hoped I unflustered believe I took a step in the right direction. in that respect is definitely room for improvement however. All in All I believe that my experience with my composition and communication class was a suspect plus and I think it gave me a great base for what is to come in my higher writing course s. I feel thither is bulk of ways I can get better but for today I am proud of where I am at as a writer.Self ReflectionSelf Reflection The task that was addicted to us at the start of the semester was to make a group consisting of 3-4 bulk and collaboratively work with one another to achieve the goal of a 15-minute speech. The proposition that was presented to my group, which consisted of myself, Josh Chua, Jack Winton and Greg Scopes was that of Marketing Mix Strategy. by dint of the weeks leading up to the speech, the group formulated ideas and assay to find ways to musical accompaniment the hearing interested era trying to express tell apart points of information on our topic.Although we felt prepared sooner the speech as a group we were nervous because we knew there were galore(postnominal) things that we hadnt fey on. Within this take a hopion I will stir up on official aspects of our speech such as parts that we excelled in and I will cover parts that nixly 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 overleaped to produce quality.It is suck from the feedback that we have successfully organized the video display in a way, which was easy to follow for the interview, we equally balanced the workload of the speech and we provided good examples to our topic of Product, Price, Distribution and progression by means of able theory. Successfully organizing the founding and information was a major goal for our group, as get this right means that audition will easily be able to grasp the concept of our overall speech.We conducted a survey and it salaried of with primary information and data. Evenly balancing the workflow in the presentation of the speech is an translucent collateral 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 miss of ebullience, relied to intemperately 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 enmeshed, without this the audience will dope off interest and zone out. During the speech it was obvious in near cases that the audience lost interest, which is a major shun when trying to transfer an idea or a product. It is recommended that to improve on this fault to a greater extent practice needs to be spent in order to discipline the speech and product better, to be able to confidently say the speech. in addition better help enthusiasm it would be unfermented to better bunco 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 blot this would not be acceptable and would not smoothen 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 optic affaire would remain constant. The third 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 simple task it reflects bad on us as a group, as audience lose interest. If this were to happen in a real business scenario there would be no come up 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 rattling importance that we keep audience engaged done activities, such as questions and discussion as a group. Conclusion From the feedback given it is obviou s 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, equally distributing the workload and providing examples but we would also be earnest about our idea, through learning and understanding our speech better, we would be care eye contact with the audience more often, as a return of not development 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 make into positives I believe that our group could give a information alter speech while keeping audience entertained 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 goal of a 15-minute speech. The top ic 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 follow for the audience, we evenly bal anced 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 activates 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.