There were many positive and negative aspects of my civic artifact speech.  I recognized many of the positive and negative aspects while presenting and realized even more after watching other speeches and observing the styles in which others presented.

I will begin by discussing many of the positive aspects that I recognized from my speech and what others pointed out.  I recognized that the actual content of my speech was very solid and straightforward.  The content touched upon each and every aspect that was asked to be examined and therefore made the speech seem more well-rounded.  In addition, the opening statement and concluding statement were directly linked to each other so it allowed the presentation to have the full wrap-around effect.  This mostly benefitted the conclusion in which viewers could finally fully understand and grasp the opening lines.  Lastly, I had a good balance of hand motions and this allowed for me as a presenter to be more visual with what I was presenting.  All of these aspects were touched upon by the commentors on my presentation and were aspects that I noticed during my presentation and while watching it after.

There were also many negative aspects that could be improved upon for following presentations.  Most notably, my presentation speed was too fast.  This made it difficult to understand at times and also made it hard to follow the train of thought.  If I slowed down, my train of thought would be clearer, and my ideas would have been better communicated.  In addition, I needed a better opener to help bring the audience in.  Having a stronger opener would have gotten the students attention from the start and would have provided more interest in the presentation that was to follow.  These are two aspects that I also recognized in others speeches that made them so successful.  Therefore, for the following presentations I will put a focus on slowing my vocal tone and working on creating a stronger opener.  Doing this will help drastically improve my presentations.