#public-speaking
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- The Public Speaking Final Exam: Studying for a Test About Talking
A silent final with 54 questions showed which half of public speaking a paper test can measure — and how much the recordings contributed.
- Informative Speech: The Messy Outline & the Blunder Log
A four-minute speech taught me that a cluttered outline is a design defect you feel on stage — and that my mid-speech corrections were negotiating for clarity.
- Chetna Gala Sinha Is My Power Pose
I was asked to name a superhero. I picked a banker in a yellow saree who keeps one hand still for fourteen minutes — and learned why it works.
- Striving for Equity in Marriage: The Talk, & the Marriage Still in Discovery Mode
A TEDx talk arguing people can transform marriage from within — then an audit of that tidy framework against the messy, unfinished marriage I built it from.
- The LGBTQ+ Panic Defense Prohibition Act & the Question I'd Rewrite
A 25-minute policy presentation taught me the difference between inviting a room to think and demanding that it agree.
- My Favorite Speech: A 90-Second Teardown of a Motivational Speech
A 90-second locker-room speech from a Hindi film showed me that persuasion can work by handing the stakes back to the people who were doubted.
- Persuasive Speech: Outline & Self-Evaluation
A persuasive speech assignment taught me to build an outline that does the heavy lifting — and that mid-speech corrections are just negotiating for clarity.