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I tried to implement strategic pauses into my speech. This technique was used after places like transitions, emphasizes, or final thoughts. By doing this, my speech won't sound too rushed, and it creates a silent environment turning certain parts more memorable and impactful. I like how i delivered my AGD, especially where I tried to stretch out the part "why is davinci even alive again". By posing this question, the audience will want to know the answer to this question and thus pay attention to my speech. Next time, I can definitely present my speech with a more engaging tone rather then speaking robotically. I will also try to focus more on tone shifts because I feel like I maintained the same tone throughout the entire speech.

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I try to add some humor in jokes though i did not find it any chance to make the audience laugh because of this humor tone, and I am trying to pace my self well that every component of my speech is separated equally. I am adding pauses to the speech and separate my words in order to create space for my audience to feel and think about my words, and thereby increase the depth and give a more serious and concise tone. However the pacing did not go well, so do the pauses, i found difficulties in choosing which word to pause and which phrase to emphasizing, causing the rhythm of my speech to go a little wield? I will try highlight my speech to find a more effective and depth tone of the speech

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I tried to use a contradicting tone(or maybe to sound questionable) and to create a relaxed speech environment. I think the tone i used was not as effective due the lack of deepness in my script, in some parallel sentences, the word "enjoy" pops out too many times, causing the speech to sound weird, boring, and tired. i would likely to improve the use of diction in my speech in order to make the content more effective and deeper. i also lack specific examples (sources and datas) and the argument is not clear at all, if i want to make it into an OO, likely i have to cut huge amount of lines that repeats the same idea and put sources inside.

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i experienced with strategic pauses for the audience to catch up what im trying to say. I also stressed words in important places of the speech like school shootings etc. I feel like the strongest part of my delivery is using pathos, talking about school shootings and terrirost attacks to make them think this actually makes an big impact.

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Andy

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I experiment pacing, strategic pauses, and emphasize in the speech.
I feel my AGD’s delivery is relatively strong, as I’ve got feedbacks also from other people that the aGD did captures their attention(but I didn’t spoke that passionately in the video.)
I notice my final draft still wasn’t fluent enough, and it is too long. I will improve my argumentation, how i develop those arguments, and reduce the length of my draft.

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Anne Yao

I tried experimenting with a slower speaking pace and including pauses. I felt strongest about being able to just read from something and not needing to worry about memorization. I would like to focus on improving the content, tone and expression.

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Instead of moving aimlessly when I delivered Analysis Paralysis, I concentrated on making more deliberate hand gestures to highlight important concepts. In order to keep the audience interested in what I was saying, I also tried to emphasise key phrases and keep the tone lively throughout the speech. My oracy—my capacity to speak clearly, exude confidence, and effectively convey emotion—is what I feel most confident about. I would like to get better, though, by slowing down at important points so that the audience has time to process what I'm saying. In order to make my delivery feel even more dynamic and expressive, I also want to work on using more tone variation to better convey changes in meaning and emotion, and also slowing down at times.

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Edric Wang:

I tried to pivot away from my typical dramatic delivery style -- focusing more on familiarizing myself with the content of the speech instead. The intro is the smoothest, and I lost momentum and stamina through the entire take. I would try to improve my stamina for this speech and think about some more niche rhetorical choices I can employ during delivery to enhance engagement.

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Andy

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I experienced pacing, strategic pauses, and emphasis on specific data. I feel strongest with my fluency that i can express my point pretty clearly. I still need to improve on my tone to actually make my speech engaging.

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I experimented with keeping a casual, chatty delivery technique, like talking about being jealous of my cat or using simple caveman stories, to make the topic feel approachable, and I also tried weaving in research facts without making the tone too stiff. I feel strongest about how I connected personal, relatable thoughts (like feeling bad for cats or struggling with task switching) to the bigger ideas about evolution and mental health, which helped the talk feel more honest, and the clear three-point structure kept the flow from getting messy. Next, I want to focus on mixing up my tone more, like sounding curious when talking about caveman brains or calmer when sharing solutions, and improving my memorization so I don’t pause as much, which will make the delivery smoother instead of feeling like it stays the same the whole time.

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Andy

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I tried to familiarize myself with the content and experimented with a faster and more serious tone instead of a dramatic and outgoing one. I don't think it was quite effective because it lacked intonation and variation, making the speech boring. I would like to improve on hand gestures, movement while speaking, and facial expressions. I also need to cut 1/3 of my speech so I don't go over time. I wasn't able to get the energy level I wanted with the speech this time, not sure why, maybe cuz I'm recording at 2AM. I feel confident in my content but I need to work on the emphasis and delivery more, especially differing between humorous and light-hearted tone versus a serious and demanding one.

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I focused on trying out the emotional arc of the new script, specifically shifting the tone between solemn and strong/argumentative. My personal narrative was once again emotionally felt, but I wasn't able to completely embody it this time.

I would like to annotate out the emotions of my speech before I deliver it since it shifts quite often due to my use of narrative argumentation

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I experimented with tonal variation, hand gestures, and pacing. I feel most confident about my ability to incorporate a narrative tone and deliver the speech with a sense of inner passion. I would like to improve my enunciation, smooth out my transitions, and refine the timing of my jokes.

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Ran Cao Info Final Draft Speech

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I experimented with tone variation in phrases, hand gestures, and speeding and slowing down to emphasize certain points. I'm most confident about my delivery at the start, as it's where the most variation exists and the most interesting part of my speech, and I would like to focus on including more interesting parts to my speech to create more variations in my ability to deliver the content. I feel like I lack humor within my content though I'm unsure if humor is needed for a topic as such, and I lack clear transitions between my three arguments making it unclear to the reader, in the future I can try using hand gestures and body movement to indicate moving onto a new point and things of emphasis more.

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Info: Alive Enough

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Info: the gentle push

Rflection:

I experimented my speech with suspenses in delivery to make sure that the speaking pace is fluent and acceptable. Moreover, i added some related hend gestures to make sure what i am converying is clear and understandable. I feel my delivery is strongest in the intro when compared to other parts of the speech, but it would be better if i had added more emotions in the hook. The biggest improvement i wanted to make is to first add more humor into the speech, second, during the second point, i am struggling to actually build an own nudge that will influence the choice of the audience, if i ca achieve that in the future, the speech will be much more engaging and explanatory as the audience can directly experience what is a nudge.

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I tried to experiment with pacing, tone, and eye contact(not that obvious because I didn't memorize the speech) . I feel strongest about the introduction, because i could just tell a story and lead into my argument, and the rest seem to come naturally for me. I would improve on memorizing the speech, and also try some body language throughout my speech.

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INFO: Magic!!!

Reflection: I have tried some changes of tone, variations of my emphasis, and gestures (not so able to see on the screen). I felt I did good at the last part of the speech where I expresses how magic is true as long as you believes in it. In that part, my voice had a lot of emotions and created emphasis. Things I can improve on includes getting more familiar with the memorization, sometimes I get into like one or two second of unintented silence when I was thinking of my next paragraph. The way of delivering that to make the speech more interesting also needs some work on, I felt my delivery is not as compelling as I imagined it would be when I wrote the sentences. It made me seen a little boring, and I am not sure that it can get the audience's attention.

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OO: " How income contributes to health inequalities"

Reflection: When going through my speech, I used delivery techniques including eye contact ( with the camera), body movement(hand gestures), and tone changes. The strongest thing about my delivery is the way I used my tone to strengthen important messages. For instance, when talking about the impact health inequalities bring to the people, I was able to shift my tone to a more serious one. I would like to focus on improving my memorization and pronunciation for further development.

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I tried to slow down and make direct eye contact when I’m saying very important things in my speech. I also added more hand gestures to make my speech look more playful. I feel like the strongest part of my speech is towards the end where I have my implication for emotional muscle memory and conclusion. It’s strong because I feel like it’s very meaningful. I would like to focus more on the logic and the flow of my speech, some parts are very weirdly phrased.

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Mosquitoes Info

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I experimented with different actions and tones. I feel like I was very successful at expressing my anger towards CORTIS and using actions to support that emotion. I would like to improve on making the actions more planned. Right now, all of the actions seem too random and in the moment. To create set moves according to each part of the speech will make the whole performance a better watch, not as messy as right now.

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Cindy Zhu

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The techniques I use is when I'm saying the key idea or point, I often pronounce this word with more time and pause after, which gives audience time to recognize the point, otherwise they might lose the idea. The research of each age stage needs how long time of sleep, I believe most of the audience did not follow the pattern so they will feel empathy on it. I still can make my diction more forman and sounds more infomative.

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Alice:Qwerty Keyboard

I focused on experimenting vocal variety, emphasis and pauses in my info speech. I feel strongest abut my pacing of the speech, but i would add more movement and gestures in the future. Also I would like to improve on clearer pronunciation and more eye contact.

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Carmen Su-OO- 'ordinary, not less'

What delivery techniques did you experiment with?

-strategic pauses: I paused in some places to express emotions more effectively

-emphasis: by emphasizing key words I grabbed the audience's attention and highlighted my argument

-eye contact: I made some eye contacts throughout the speech

What parts of your delivery do you feel strongest about?

-i feel strongest about my delivery in the beginning, where I can express stronger emotion

What would you like to focus on improving in the next steps?

-I would like to focus on improving my pacing and cutting down some parts, so it can fits within the time requirement.

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OO: " How income contributes to health inequalities"

Reflection: When going through my speech, I used delivery techniques including eye contact ( with the camera), body movement(hand gestures), and tone changes. The strongest thing about my delivery is the way I used my tone to strengthen important messages. For instance, when talking about the impact health inequalities bring to the people, I was able to shift my tone to a more serious one. I would like to focus on improving my memorization and pronunciation for further development.

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Info:coffee

I used eye contacts, pauses and different tones to illustrate my piece. In my opinion, when I mentioned all the statistics, people would show more trust towards me. I used many credible sources and strong statistics to emphasize and support my argument. However, I would try to incorporate more body languages and gestures to my speech to make it more interesting. I could also present my speech with more evident pauses and distinct tones. Especially for parts that demonstrates a clear change.

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OO-Analysis Paralysis

I tried to use more hand gestures but also do so intentionally instead of making meaningless ones. I also tried stressing more parts of my speech and maintaining an engaging tone throughout. I feel strongest about my oracy, but i would also like to work on slowing down a little at certain parts and using more tone variation.

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Vivi Lu

In video I mainly did experiment with hand gestures, I’ve tried to incorporate some interactive hand gestures especially when I preserve a statistic or when listing multiple things at once. Moreover, I also uses emphasis as a way to recapture my audience’s attention and notice the audience about the significant of this particular part. Furthermore, also uses dramatic pause to make my transition between sentences more smoother . I think the strongest part of my speech is my transitions. I feel like the transition of my speech is the most interesting part, because it contains the most jokes. (To be honest even presenting the speech myself as the speaker, I got bored). Thus, I definitely have to work on humors and ways that could make my speech more interesting.

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OO - 'How to Paint a Red Flag White'

I tried experimenting with vocal variation and hand gestures when necessary, in order to emphasize a point. I'm most confident about my delivery with humor/sarcasm, because I feel like it comes off as natural rather than forced. In the future, I would like improve on my pacing and emphasis on certain words, to enhance my vocal variation and make my delivery more compelling.

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In my speech I experimented with eye contacts, varying tone, and random pauses. I should improve on hand gestures later as it's a skill I never fully master, and probably improve upon my cadence. I feel the humor is largely enhanced and I now feel pretty confident with them, and the story telling part makes me most comfortable. However, my other parts, like logical reasoning, still needs improvement fir the structure of the speech to be more balanced and the credibility stronger.

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I experimented with adding humor to my speech and trying to be serious at different times, adding diversity to the feel of my delivery; I also tried articulating important words more, and tried to make pauses at the appropriate times. I feel pretty strongly about my tone at the moment. I would definitely want to work on my articulation and pacing, because sometimes my words get jumbled up and I rush/talk too slowly.

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Angela Diao INFO - Rhythm

I tried to make as much eye contact as I can, but because I focus more on gestures, I’ve got lack of eye contact. I feel the strongest when I start singing or know the next sentence to say. In the future, I’ll work on more eye contact and a more memorable style of delivering, and I should be more confident when speaking.

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I made eye contact, strategic pause and change of tone in my speech. I feel strongest about my pacing and control of time. I would like to improve on pronouncing words more accurately and making the flow more fluent.

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I added more transition and AGDs to connect my paragraphs, and I tired to emphasize on important words. I feel strongest about my speaking pace and the speed. In the future, I will clarify my pronunciation in my sentences, and further simplify my draft since it is over time.

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I tried to make eye contacts and strategic pauses, also stressing important words. I feel strongest about my pacing. In the future, I would like to focus on my tone and clarity (scientific terms: orthosomnia and insomnia …)

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Zijun Tian(Ava) OO-Is It Time to Cancel the Number Three?

I tried to stress specific, important words. I feel strongest about my flow and tone when delivering my speech. In the future, I would love to work on my pronunciation for certain words and pause for my jokes.

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Instructions:

1. Preparation:

Finalize your OO or INFO draft (approx. 8.5–10 minutes).

Review your manuscript and annotate places to experiment with delivery (e.g., tone, emphasis, pacing, gestures).

2. Recording:

Find a quiet space with minimal distractions.

Using a phone, computer, or any recording device, record yourself delivering your speech.

Focus on experimenting with at least three different delivery techniques throughout your speech (see suggestions below).

Examples: vocal variety, pacing, strategic pauses, emphasis, gestures (describe them if not on video), dynamics, eye contact, movement.

You must record video. Try to perform as you would in a live round.

One take only: Don’t edit or record multiple times; this is to capture authentic progress and natural delivery.

3. Submission:

Upload your video by the deadline.

In your submission, include a brief (3–5 sentence) reflection:

What delivery techniques did you experiment with?

What parts of your delivery do you feel strongest about?

What would you like to focus on improving in the next steps?