My Academic Journey: Public Speaking At Thomas Nelson Community College

The fear of public speaking can prevent people from attending events that focus on individual attention and can limit the opportunities required for the progress of their career. According to Pillay (2016), “Fear is your brain's alarm system that is triggered by sudden motions, sounds, or anything that could threaten your safety or survival (para, 2). Fear is not always bad. Primitive reaction to fear is to either take flight, meaning avoid the situation that causes fear or to fight, meaning stay and face the situation to the best of one’s ability. There are mainly two reasons why people fear speaking, first is when they are not prepared and second is that are too concerned about themselves

Public speaking is the number one fear in the world, which shows that the number one fear is really a deep fear of rejection from the connection of others. The narrator in “Typical First Year Professor”, who had a fantastic education and experience, has public speaking issues. She explains how her fear physically affects her in, “Ten minutes before my first class, I run to the bathroom and vomit. I’m afraid of public speaking, which

There is no question that after giving about four speeches, I have become a much better overall public speaker. In the beginning of the semester, I would tend to get nervous during some of my speeches and consequently the delivery of my speech would be greatly affected. If I had made a mistake, my level of nervousness would drastically increase and I wouldn’t know how to correct it. Although today I have improved on these aspects. Normally in order to control my nerves I try to think as positively as possible. This is critical because when I start to think even a little bit negatively then I severely hurt my chances of giving a good speech. Instead today, my main priority is to stay very confident and tell myself that I’m going to perform fine.

Public speaking used to be a daunting task that I would try to avoid as often as possible, often I would be the last to present a project and would refrain myself from having to read outloud. When I would speak my head would fill with thoughts of how other were perceiving me and how easy it would be to mess up. With this nervous mentality my speaking was stuttered and confusing.

If any class I’m taking requires a speech that must be presented in front of others, I immediately dread the due date for that assignment. While the student, whose turn is before mine, is reciting his or her speech, I cannot help but feel my heart race and the palms of my hands begin to sweat. No matter how many times I take a deep breath and tell myself to relax, I still feel anxious. My anxiety towards public speaking has been happening to me since as long as I can remember. I was eager to take the PRPSA questionnaire to determine where on the scale my level of anxiety towards public speaking falls. To my expectations, my results for the questionnaire, a 98, was right where I figured it would be. I found my score to be accurate because yes,

One of my more vivid experiences of public speaking was when I was taking a class at a community college. While taking this class I would often have to give speeches and demonstrations in front of the class. As I was waiting for my turn to give my very first speech, I was very certain that I would have no problems at all, it would a piece of cake, or so I thought. All of a sudden, I hear my name being called as it was my turn to deliver a knockout performance, but as I stood in front of that small class of people I just blanked out. An overwhelming amount of anxiety came over of me. I could feel my heart beginning to race and my hands starting to sweat. I could not for the life of me remember what I was going supposed say. In addition, the

As I walked out of my dorm that morning for my 9am class, I checked my schedule to see where I needed to go. My first class was public speaking in room 232. My stomach instantly dropped. The calmness I once felt left my body in a rush. Public speaking was my worst fear. I stuttered and mumbled and shook each time I entered a crowded room. Speaking in front of a whole classroom has never been on my bucket list. I fretfully continued my journey to room 232. I attempted to give myself a pep talk along the way to help calm my nerves, but nothing was helping. I told myself that this was not

I always stress myself out before, and during these experiences. I'd love to say that having my first oral-only presentation got me over my fear of public speaking. But it didn't. Today, though, I can say that I remember the days leading up to the presentation much better than I can remember actually presenting. While this experience didn't change my fears, it did change the way I will go into future presentations or public speaking requirements. Maybe the nerves going into something like this will die down slightly if I think about how short the thing I'm dreading will actually be. I think that this presentation experience sort of sums up my first semester of high school. I came into this school terrified. Even though there have been struggles in the time I have been here, they haven't been nearly as bad as I initially

Public speaking was so nerve racking and I would always speak very softly because I was so afraid to speak out in large crowds. I thought if I continued to do it, that it would get easier but it hasn’t. I was very good at communicating with the Council and ensuring that they had everything for the meeting but when it came to speaking at the meetings and presenting my materials, I felt like I was on foreign land. My heart began to beat really hard and fast, my hands were sweaty and my tongue would always be tied. I can defiantly improve on my public speaking skills. To develop these skills, I could attend some public speaking courses to improve my output of information and to reduce the anxieties. In could also volunteer to present at school and at work to help with it. I don’t think that I can ever get used to speaking in public.

My anxiety over speaking in public is nowhere as dire as it was 2 years ago. Due to the classes I took in high school, I have had much more practice in public speaking then most college students. I have participated in debates, recorded speeches, and much more. However, I still have apprehension over speaking. My symptoms of speaking apprehension include, shaking in my hands and legs, and rapid breathing and talking. In the future I plan on adapting certain techniques to help manage my trepidation and rapid speaking.

Only a select few people take pleasure in giving presentations or public speaking. I am not one of those people. Public speaking has always been a problem for me. G.A.D. or general anxiety disorder, has been a substantial factor in my life and being graded or judged on how well you speak in front of people, doesn’t exactly help. Whether it is five people or over a thousand, when pressure is put on you-you have to react. For example, when your grade for the quarter depends on how well you give a presentation, or when you have a competition or a big game. Consequently, you could become exceedingly anxious, and begin to doubt yourself, and that can lead to horrible situations.

Throughout my life, I've always been afraid whenever I had to speak in front of a large group of people. Whether it'd be a participating in classroom or talking to a group of acquaintances, whenever the thought of speaking in front of that many people came in I immediately get anxious as if I'd embarrass myself by saying something wrong and getting laughed at sometimes. But all of that changed when I decided to overcome my anxiety by joining the debate society. Initially I embarrassed myself many times, sometimes by forgetting to say all the content I came up when anxiety stroke me at the moment my time to give a speech came, or by making embarrassing mistakes in my speech. But my willing to never give up and learning from my mistakes to make

For as long as I can remember, public speaking has always been one of my greatest weaknesses. Whether it’s a simple in-class presentation or a speech in front of an auditorium filled with people, I can barely get my words out from the anxiety and

I am bad at public speaking. This time I had to memorize and give a five-minute speech about an issue of my choice.The most talkative and outspoken students in the class did really bad and it made me think if they did bad, I would do worse. When the time came to give my speech, my heart started racing and my palms started sweating and the timer began when I started giving my speech on vegetarianism. While giving the speech, I observed my nervous symptoms decreasing instead of increasing. After I finished, I went to the teacher to get my score. I got a 95. This never happened before so I tried to understand why. I think it’s because I’ve always given speeches and presentations on things I didn’t care about because the topics were always assigned

Stage freight and speaking in front of large groups of people is on top of every human fear. Face to face public speaking puts hefty demands on speakers and listeners. The mixture of personality, body and voices as well as chemistry makes speech a form of communication with exciting energy. Irrespective of the attention given, it will create a significant and meaningful message. Without an effective presentation the speech will unlikely create desire effects. In the article “Don’t be Shy” (Aviv, 2016) it states how public speaking affects students to the point they will drop the class as long as they don’t have to speak in front of it or even sitting in class and having to raise your hand to ask a question in front of the class stops many students due to fear of embarrassment. We all struggle with communication anxiety, and uneasiness with unfamiliar situations. It also describes how improving certain aspects in presentations will allow enough experience and confidence to have the ability to successfully speak publicly, because we all know that speaking well if often crucial to getting a job.