1. Describe how and why you selected your persuasive topic. What motivated you to speak on the selected topic for your persuasive speech?
2. When researching your topic, what resources (i.e. the library, magazines, on-line databases, etc.) did you use to find reliable and reputable sources to support your topic? Keep in mind that the internet is NOT always a reliable source of information.
3. As you outlined your topic, how did you determine the organizational pattern to persuade?
4. What method(s) did you use when you practiced your speech? Was that method(s) effective?
5. What one item would you spend more time on – research, outlining, or practicing – in order to improve your next speech, and why? What were the major recommendations regarding areas of improvement given to you after the previous speeches by your instructor, peers and your own suggestions?
6. Watch your recorded persuasive speech and thoroughly evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement for next time. Use the back of this page if needed. What is your one major achievement, the area you feel where you improved the most?
**Adapted with permission from the University of North Dakota, Director of Public Speaking.