My Call To Action Talk Analysis

My call to action talk was about the importance of eating breakfast for everyone and I used my usual speaking style. Uptalk, a common speaking style, is speaking in sentences and changing the tone of the sentence as if what was said was a question. Sometimes I do uptalk when I speak in conversations with friends or family, but I don’t while presenting. I believe uptalk lowers the speaker's credibility because their tone leads the audience to believe the speaker has more credibility than he does rather than believing him based on facts. Using hand gestures, proper eye contact, and positive body language are the most effective for portraying myself as self-confident and professional while presenting. I need to work on eliminating a few filler

words, relax a bit, and smile so I can reinforce positive body language while presenting.
I used personal examples and statistics to persuade my audience that breakfast is in fact important to maintain human health. I established credibility by mentioning the sources where I got my statistics that I mentioned from near the end of my slides. However, I can do a better job stating them in my presentation instead of citing them and a better job at finding quality evidence from trusted sources to mention. I learned where I needed to improve as a speaker from my peer feedback forms and areas of improvement that before taking this class, I hadn’t considered.