Talk:Individual events (speech and debate)

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[edit] Merge suggestion

I've flagged this article to be be merged with National Forensic League. I'd suggest that the info be split between that article and the individual event articles themselves. There is a lot of duplication and I'd be very surprised if a vistor searched under this title. --CTSWyneken 03:23, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd respectfully say that such a move would diminish the meaning of both pages. While the National Forensic League is one of the sponsors of individual events competition, there are three problems I can quickly see. First, many competitions (a very large number) occur outside the auspices of the NFL. Second, the NFL events do not run the entire gamut of speech individual events competition. There are many states with events that are not included in the NFL, and removing this article would thus eliminate their representation. Finally, the NFL is only one of many organizations (see National Catholic Forensic League for one quick example) sponsoring this competition. Thus, this article is correctly titled, and should in my opinion remain independent. That said, if the events all end up with their own pages, perhaps this could be made into a type of directory page? Also, this page may need to be retitled Individual events (speech), because I don't see much debate on here. Stewunit 07:10, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed from elsewhere

The follosing section was deleted from Forensics page as an act of disambiguation. Please incorporate it here, if there is anything new. I have a zero knowledge here to do it myself. `'mikkanarxi 02:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Forensics as Speech and Debate

Forensics is also a term for a facet of speech communication studies encompassing competitive speech and debate competitions. A comprehensive survey recently identified more than 400 Colleges and Universities with programs. Hundreds more teams exist on the high school level. Thousands of students compete at tournaments across the country from August through May of each year in a variety of individual speaking categories and styles of debate as well as competitive readers theater. Some of the major organizations that oversee and administer forensics competition at the national level include:

The American Forensics Association (AFA)[1]
The National Forensic League (NFL)[2]
Phi Rho Pi [3]
American Readers Theater association (ARTa) [4]
The National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) [5]
The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) [6]

An informal study several years ago identified several notable famous forensics participants at the high school and college level including Oprah Winfrey, Al Gore, Brad Pitt, and Jane Pauley, among others.

The creator of CSI, Anthony E. Zuiker, was a national award-winner in forensics speaking competitions while in college.