This week, we continued giving speeches over our original
work in class. I watched my peers’ presentations, noting the positive aspects
of their speeches as well as the areas that could use improvement, in order to
find out how to better present my own speech.
I created a powerpoint to act as a visual aide throughout my
speech, and included various charts and graphs in order to present my data to
my audience in an engaging manner. The speech
will mainly be over the original work that I recently completed, and it will
also cover my short term, mid term, and long term SMART goals for my future, as
well as briefly touching on my experiences thus far with my mentor. The speech
will be 20 to 25 minutes long, which is the longest speech we have had to
present yet, so I have made sure to devote an appropriate amount of time to
rehearsing my presentation.
I also created a formal proposal for my final product. Dr. Schmitt, on one of my earlier mentor
visits, suggested that I conduct interviews with child psychologists, child
protective services case workers, family law defense lawyers, and potentially
even victims of emotional abuse in order to determine the impact of emotional
abuse, and to investigate whether it is actually being dealt with
appropriately.
