Journal Entry

The journal entry provides an analysis of the informative speech presented by one of my peer known as Sam. This informative speech offers interesting or significant information; thus a good informative presentation makes one feel more comfortable. Providing relaxed presentation is essential because it increases the understanding, knowledge and ability of the listener. Wood (405) argues that an effective informative presentation should provide listeners with a clear topic and thesis statement. This is because it will make the listeners to want to know way they are listening and what the need to hear from the informative speech. Therefore, the purpose of the essay is to critically analyze the informative speech that was presented by Sam.

 
Discussion
The speaker had a clear topic and memorable attention getter. This is because her work was clearly organized; thus she captured the attention of the listener through use of memorable getter such use of startling and quotation statements. Furthermore, it was easy to identify the speaker’s main points because she prepared the speech points in a clear and coherent manner. The speaker also made effective transition by moving from one point to another; thus connecting listeners effectively. The speaker used some citations within the points, which was easy to identify; thus effective for jogging the memory of the listener in case one forgets the speech.
Moreover, the speaker reviewed the main points in the conclusion and this was imperative because it builds the credibility of the listener. In this ways, the speaker demonstrated that she has some expertise or experience relevant to the topic and also demonstrated to the listeners that she has gained information in other ways. The speaker used memorable concluding devices such as quotations for closing the speech. The speaker had some distracting nonverbal behaviors especially the body language, posture and appearance that took away from the content of her message. However, the speaker used gestures such as deliberate movements and signals which were effective ways of expressing the meaning of the information without words. She also used visual aspects in order to help the listener to understand clearly the points she was explaining such as diagrams and simple charts. Although the speaker at times read directly from her note cards, she made some transitions and explained the points in an informative manner.

Conclusion
In conclusion, I was impressed by the speaker because she connected with the listeners by using body gestures. The speaker also used visual materials and these were effective because they not only connected with the listeners but captured the attention of the listener. Use of gestures and visual materials such as diagrams or simple graphs are effective because they create an impression to the listeners. Therefore, I will give my peer 95 percent because the presentation was well organized. However, the constructive feedback I will offer the speaker is using an effective and more ethical supporting materials; thus presenting information fairly and without misrepresentation.