Speaker Critique on Friday 6/15 I Went Essay

Speaker Critique

On Friday 6/15 I went to home depot to see a speech on "How to Manage You Lawn and Garden." I had seen a flyer in the store on a previous visit and decided that this would be an interesting event to attend so that I could learn how to take care of my yard at home. This was a free event that just required showing up at the specified time. I was hoping to pick up some tips on how to better care for my flowers and grass as I always seem to have hard time making it look good all summer long.

Evaluation of Speaker

The speaker was a representative from expertvillage.com. He had been invited to speak to the audience in regards to how to manage ones yard and garden. His motivation for giving this speak came from his intense passion for sharing with others his knowledge about how to manage ones lawn and garden so that they always look good. He appeared to be very passionate about wanting to spread his knowledge to others. The speaker appeared to know what he was talking about and had a lot of very useful hints and tips to share with his audience. These tips and trick were not necessarily common knowledge but were very interesting to the audience.

The speaker had pretty good delivery skills. This was not a speech that was done extemporarily, as he had planned topics on which he spoke with props that he used in order to better show what he was talking about.His vocal delivery at times was somewhat shaky as he sometimes stumbled over his words. His physical delivery, on the other had, was very good in that he moved around enough to keep the audience awake and alert. The speaker appeared to be very confident in what he was presenting and a somewhat corny sense of humor. He managed to get a few chuckles from the audience which showed that people were paying attention. Overall he was a very interesting speaker who tried hard to keep the audiences attention by providing very interesting and useful information.

Description and Analysis of the Speech Content

The speech was very informative as the speaker talked about several topics having to do with lawn and garden care. He broke each topic down into steps and included listing the tools that would be needed to complete the particular project of which he was speaking. The overall speech was broken down into subtopics. At the beginning of each subtopic the speaker outlined what he was going to be talking about and how that particular project would benefit the audience in the end. The speaker did a good job at going through each project step-by-step and providing tips and helpful hints along the way. The speech had a topical pattern structure in that the main topic was about how to manage ones lawn and garden and each subtopic covered had to do with a….....