self-evaluation Assignment 1

It is really hard to self-evaluate myself, but I will try to be unprejudiced. I have been prepared very well but it was really hard to tell everything what I prepared in 4-5 minutes, so I have to work on speech with time limitation. I think that I achieved the purpose of my speech pretty well because I fold the main idea of my topic (second degree burn) but I really didn't like my demonstration part of my speech, because I was limited by time and I couldn't show how to treat the burn, but that was demonstrative speech, so I didn't achieved the purpose of the main idea of the demonstrative speech. I know I was so nervous and at the same time I felt very comfortable and confident, I like my audience and I trust them, it's like a little family. If I would have the chance to tell my speech again I would change my delivery, I would change the order of my main points and definitely I wanted to show what I prepared without limitation of the time. For improving of the next speech I would like to add more facts and opinions of scientists but I have very difficult topic and I need to think how to do it. Also I want to attract the attention in my speech and it should be something captivating. My next goal for improving the delivery will be accuracy, calmness and thoroughness. After watching my speech I noticed that I thought about the time, how many I have told and how much time left and sometimes I was distracted by the cards with the minutes on it and I have asked myself: "does anybody understand what I am telling?"
I don't like when somebody substitute the words with fillers, "um", "uh" and I did same thing. I never do this when I have speech in Russian language but I don't have any excuses because I have to work on it. I had vocal fillers like "um", "uh" because I try to translate something and in my brain pops up a lot of words and I try to find precise word to express what I really want to say. If rate my eye contact on a scale from 1-10 I would say it is 8 or 9. I like to see in the eyes of my audience because I can see their reaction on my speech and I can read their face, it helps me to be calm. I know that I didn't mention any of source citations during the course of my speech because I didn't know that I have to do it but in my next speech I will do this. I know that my demonstration speech was built on the credible sources and I have written all of them in my outline, but it was a good lesson for me that I have to have a reliable source for my audience. As I said it hard to evaluate myself but I think that my grade would be B+ of A- because I worked really hard on my preparation but I understand that for grade A my English language should be excellent and understandable, also I have to avoid vocal fillers  and I have to put my speech in the time frame and absolutely I have to show my demonstration not only tell it. In short word I agree with my grade and I have a good motivation to work more and take into consideration all comments in my evaluation form to improve my grade in my informative speech.