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The speech “Birth Order Effect” discusses the effects of being born as a first, middle, or last child. After intense reviewing and critiquing on the online speech subject, purpose, thesis, research, organization, delivery, and presentation aids. I’ve have determined this speech to be well presented only having small errors that could have been easily avoided. The “Birth Order Effect” speech subject was worth the time and effort spent to watch it, because it explain each characteristic and descriptions every child usually has. The topic was narrow and enough to be covered in some depth. Everyone is either an only child, first child, middle child or baby of the family making it very relevant to the audiences today. Throughout the whole speech the thesis is clear and limited to one main idea which is birth order effects. Many good key points are given in the speech that clearly related and supported the thesis. For example the speaker describes his own family using the birth order effect. Giving us a list of characteristics that describe his sisters, brother, and himself being a first, middle, or last child. The speech was adequately researched, because he mentions Dr Kevin Leman an author who …show more content…
wrote books on birth order effects. He also mentions many different celebrities that are the only child, first, middle, and youngest. The speaker properly referenced his research data by stating the smoothly incorporating Dr Kevin Leman theories on birth order and mentions his books. When the speaker cites his sources I feel confident his sources are reliable. Over all the speaker looks like he has somewhat of a good understanding of birth orders. He doesn’t just read off his notes cards the whole time, but at one point he did talk about a subject that didn’t appear on the slide until he noticed. The speaker provided a wide range of evidence to back up and support each key point. He provided evidence that birth order had been talk about for thousands of year already. He showed a variety of example on first, middle, and youngest children that have certain qualities. The speech was very organized having a well thought out clear introduction, strong body and conclusion. The attention grabber the speaker used to start of his speech was a rhetorical question. He had ask what all the people on the power point had in common. The attention-getter was effective, because it made me try to analyze what all those different range of celebrities have in common. In the intro he also mentions all of the points in the order he will be covering, giving the audience a preview on what to expect. Each transition the speaker created was smooth easily guiding the audience to know when different keys point was to going to be cover. For example in the beginning of his speech words he used were “let me enlighten you” as a smooth transition for the attention grabber to the preview of his speech. The speaker’s conclusion was also effective he summarize quick key points that mention the characteristic each child has in a family. As well as having final words that tying in together that those qualities doesn’t define a person but just is a small fractions of who they might be. The overall delivery of the speech was decent.
He would maintain eye contact with the audience at times but mainly look at his PowerPoint or note cards for most of the time. The speaker would fidget, and constantly look down at his notes making him look not confident. His confidence level seem to be average at times, but slight above average when speaking on certain key points. The speaker does show enthusiasm on his topic about the effects of birth order. It looks like he can relate to the topic and does know a lot of information on it. The volume of the speech was just right and the speed is at a good pace making him easy to understand. The PowerPoint he had was an effective presentation aid he used. He kept referring information from it, and gave the audience visual
aid. The presentation as a whole was good. The subject of being born in certain order effects the person you can be is relevant and a narrow topic. The speaker’s keys points and research were clear and creditable. However, there is always room for improvement in content and delivery. A suggestion I have for the content of speech is telling the speaker to provide more types of references. Another suggestion I can give to the speaker would be towards his delivery. I would tell him to remember the structure of his speech for he can make more eye contact with the audience and less on his note cards. Other than those minor suggestions I think the speaker did a good job.
While analyzing the speech, I notice how he isn’t shaky from nervousness or his voice’s pitch getting higher which makes him confident, is already prepared of what he wants to talk about, and therefore does not cause any distractions towards the audience. His voice tone is at his natural state as I assume as it calm, not quick to rush words out, and engages the audience by not bringing
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The theory that Zajonc and Markus proposed was that the birth order of children was closely related to their intelligence ranking. Through their research they began to decipher and support this theory. Zajonc and Markus also presented the idea, “that as family size increased, the average intellectual climate of the family decreased.” In other words, the subsequent children are influenced differently than a first born, so their intellectual stimulation is more lacking, causing a decrease in the overall family confluence score. The researchers organized an experiment to explain this concept. The experiment consisted of two parents who each started out a value of 100 and each infant received a value of 0. As more babies were born, the family’s average intellectual value went down up until the fifth child where it picks back up again because the cognitive value of each child goes up as they get older.
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Blair, L. (2011). Birth Order: What Your Position in the Family Really Tells You About Your
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