Hello reader, my name is Tsav and I am a student in Public Speaking taught by Mrs. Guarino. I am 18 years old and I live in Cheshire, CT. I am a senior at Cheshire Academy and I will be graduating in the spring. My main sport is baseball, and I play guitar as my main hobby. There are many reasons to take public speaking but there are two main reasons why I am taking it. I want to learn the skills of delivering news to a group of people whether good or bad, and to deliver a speech to a large audience. My future job will involve speaking to families, and it is important to know how and be comfortable speaking in front of people.

When I first heard of public speaking, I immediately knew it was going to be a valuable class because of my major. I am looking to be a nurse practitioner, and possibly be a trauma nurse. With every patient comes nervous, know-it-all family members. They are frantic to hear information from anyone with a hospital staff tag on. Thinking about it I knew that I was going to have to learn how to communicate with people who are scared and desperate for news. Things can quickly get even more out of hand if communication skills are lacking, causing families to get angry at you and even the hospital. Speaking to the families and delivering information is a huge part of trauma and really any type patient care.

Putting my future aside, I began to think about my senior speech. With thought I realized that I had no idea how to deliver an important, serious speech to a large audience. There are so many intricacies and behaviors that can contribute to the audience’s overall perception of the speech. I began to wonder how I look and act when I speak in front of people. I wanted to learn how to avoid certain habits, and adopt good ones. Senior speech is a very important part of my last year of high school I want to me it the best I can.

I feel that everyone should take public speaking because it is an extremely useful skill to learn. Every single job in the world requires communication with other people. When you are talking to someone who has very bad communication habits it is hard to listen, pay attention, and have a conversation with them. People nowadays are so obsessed with their phones and other devices that they are losing the art of talking, making this class even more of a value. There are times when you can speak loosely to your friends and even family, but there are times when you need to demonstrate basic skills of communicating whether it’s with your boss, your teacher, or your work team. Speaking is the main way of communicating and people need to learn how to do so in the correct way.