Writing a speech is easy. Telling someone about a speech you have to give is easy. Practicing your speech is easy. Making a speech is not. Through my public speaking course I learned a lot about the art of giving speeches, creating a logical outline of my speech and a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of my public speaking ability. My strengths as a speaker are the ability to maintain eye contact with the audience and to convey to my audience the passion I have for certain topics. My general weaknesses are that I can be caught speaking quickly, causing me to skip sentences or words, and my ability to create a pattern for my speech. I will review my informative and persuasive speech by looking at three different criteria, content, delivery and overall rating, and I will evaluate myself in depth. Even though I don't have audio of my informational speech, I can still evaluate my mannerisms and eye contact. When it came to introducing my speeches I used many different techniques. In my informative speech on how to vote in elections I used statistics like: “According to a Huffington Post article titled “2012 Youth Voter Turnout,” by Tyler Kingkade, only 19% of voter turnout in the 2012 was by people between the ages of 18 and 25", to provide my audience with a statement that was shocking and surprising to capture their attention. In my persuasive speech on values ​​I did not address such a popular topic as voting for the election, so I had to familiarize my audience with the Duke basketball players and some history of their team My introductory sentence of my persuasive value speech was necessary due to the lack of knowledge from part of my audience of Duke basketball and its program. In my conclusions, I used a very firm approach and acted... in the middle of the paper... I outlined the schemes better and spent more time on my draft. With a better outline I believe your language skills will improve because you can implement points in the outline to remind you to pause, emphasize certain points, use hand gestures at certain points. To achieve this I will spend more time on my outline and go into more detail in my outline to make small points that can help me during my speech. Over the course of the semester I realized that I am very far from being a perfect public speaker but I can aspire to be one. With the feedback I received throughout the semester and evaluating my strengths and weaknesses by looking at my presentation, content, and overall grade, I can become a better public speaker and a better speaker overall. Your words are valuable in academia and even more valuable when you know what you're doing with them.