Summary Of The Power Of Introverts By Susan Cain

For this assignment I watched and critiqued “The Power of Introverts” by Susan Cain. Overall I enjoyed this speech. I found it to be educational about a common group of people who are mostly ignored and are seen as outsiders in today’s society. I can relate to her speech and the way she gives her speech, makes it possible for even extroverts to understand a little bit to what it is like to be an introvert. For this speech I am grading it in four categories; the introduction, the body, the conclusion, and the delivery skills. Let’s get started.

For the introduction I would give it five stars. Her story about going to camp for the first time is funny and entertaining but is also relatable to other introverts. She gives a little background towards

The specific purpose statement of the speech was clear and left no questions to why she was giving this speech. The speech never went off topic and supported her specific purpose of informing people about introverts and how they are necessary in our lives. While I thought the speech was excellent there was still a few concerns that I had. Some concerns I had was that she liked to use sarcasm. Using sarcasm is not necessarily a terrible thing but at some parts I think the audience took it as personal. The speech felt quite biased. Most of the time it seemed as if she was making out introverts to be better than extroverts. Although, she did point out a few times that this was not the case. Also, while I really enjoyed her extra story near the end about her grandfather and how he was an introvert that his city loved, I feel as if it could be taken out. My personal belief is that the story had no real effect on the speech and it would have had the same effect on the audience without

Her voice was clear and easily understood. She did stumble slightly on a couple of parts but continued going. This made these small mishaps minsiqule. From the video, it is shown that there is a large audience that she is giving this speech in front of. For most of it she is facing towards the audience. The only time she is not facing the audience is when she is dealing with her prop. Even then it is only for a couple of seconds. Her eyes move around quite a bit, seemingly trying to make eye contact with audience. She actively uses hand gestures when speaking and turns her head from one side to another a lot. By not being still it makes it as if she has having a conversation with the audience. If she had stood still and never used gestures it would make it seem that she was just lecturing and cause many people to lose interest. As mentioned in previous paragraphs, I thought her prop was an excellent addition to the speech. She used it for the story in the introduction and then again towards the end of the speech. I had slight curiosity to what was in the suitcase and her putting it out of the way made it less of a distraction. When she had finally revealed that books were inside; it clicked for me that she was using her story throughout the