26 Nov 2016

Analytical Reflection


A presentation, to me, involves being easily understood and engaging the audience. While preparing for the presentation, I focussed on displaying confidence, offering eye contact, and improving my speech. The group practiced presenting to each other and helped each other to ensure everyone was confident of themselves. Due to my tendency to stutter when I'm nervous, I am thankful that the group was willing enough to practice several more times to ensure I was able to present properly and confidently.

During the presentation, I was very nervous to present to the audience, and I did forget some of the parts that I had to present. This was one of the things I was very disappointed about.
However, there were also positives to Team Train's presentation. The strengths of Team Train's presentation was that the content was easily understood and presented in an easily understandable manner. The pictures and colours used in the slides were engaging. The other speakers presented their parts well too.

There were several things that I felt I could learn from my classmates. Most of them were very fluent and confident speakers. Being fluent and confident is the first step to effectively engage the audience. I need to overcome being nervous infront of a crowd and I feel that this can be done by controlling how my mind thinks. Instead of thinking of the negatives that could happen while presenting, I should just clear my mind and just focus on the task at hand. Also, presenting the information in terms which the audience can easily understand is also something I would like to take note of. I can improve on this by forming complete sentences while I speak. In a way, I can try applying how I form complete sentences in writing to speech.

Overall, the process from the report writing to the presentation was very fulfilling. I feel that I have improved on my report writing and also on my presenting skills. Even though there are still many things to improve on, the experience was a kickstart for me to become a better presenter.

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