by Allie Satterfield | Jan 14, 2024 | Interps, Speech Events
Credit: Pixabay When you are performing an interpretive speech, you have an immensely difficult task ahead of you. You must convey the hundreds of descriptive words an author painstakingly typed on a page in a mere gesture. You must create the same fullness to your...
by D. J. Mendenhall | Dec 18, 2023 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Lincoln-Douglas, Technique
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by Jala Boyer | Dec 11, 2023 | Debate Resources, NCFCA, NSDA, Speech Events, Stoa, Technique
Photo Credit: drown_in_city (https://unsplash.com/photos/man-in-black-shirt-standing-on-black-staircase-ZCwDb212igc) On average, debate rounds typically last somewhere between forty-five minutes to an hour, depending on the style of debate. This means that for the...
by Hannah Cavanaugh | Dec 10, 2023 | Communication/Rhetoric, Cross Examination, From Advanced to National-Class, Lincoln-Douglas, Strategy, Team Policy, Technique, Thinking Strategically, Uncategorized
One thing I’ve noticed in my short time on the other side of competition is how useless cross-examination often becomes. In my experience, it is usually used as a short conversation to get to know your opponent, to have them repeat what they just spent the last 6-8...
by Patrick McDonald | Nov 30, 2023 | Lincoln-Douglas, Team Policy
Courtesy — pixabay.com Many skills are useful in debate. Among them are sounding confident, speaking smoothly, thinking well on the fly, and effectively researching a case. You can and should attempt to improve your capability in all of those areas—they are all...
