Presentations Review

Last week, everybody in the class was told to bring in a presentation. The presentations were based around analyzing a speech from a list of a hundred great speeches. One speech that stood out the most and had a good group presenting it was Margaret Sanger's "The Children's Era" speech, which was presented by Nicole and Ellen. The speech was about legalizing birth control, giving it a very pro birth control feel and tone. The SOAPST was clearly presented in the presentation along with all of the other aspects of the speech. The speech had a classical oration type of structure, but also included a toulmin model structure, due to how the author (Margaret Sanger) was able to write this peace. The speech used literary devices such as anaphoras and metaphors, two of the many others used. Aside from the speech itself, Ellen and Nicole's presentation was well constructed. The slides were informative, long, and were in great detail. As far as the vocal presentation, I suggest that for next time, they use note cards, seeing how they would stumble and lose their spots. This was not shown much, but happened on few occasions, but it would not be a bad idea to improve on it.