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.
[edit] Missing categories/rewording
I'm on a competitive Speech team, and there are three events that I recognize that are not listed: Serious Interpretation, Storytelling, Extemporanous Programmed Reading. I'm going to add them with a description of the competition, which can be removed if anyone finds it necessary, but they exist and I've done all three before.
Also, I'm rewording the entry for Dramatic interpretation. It's worded to make people think of this definition of dramatic: any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest or results: the drama of a murder trial. In actuality, it refers to theatrical drama, in that the piece performed must be a script for a play.
I also added a general explination of what limited preparation events are. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.196.77.164 (talk) 04:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Merge Radio speaking into Individual events (speech and debate)
The Radio speaking article is a copy/paste from the section on radio speaking in Individual events (speech and debate), and adds nothing on its own. As it seems unlikely that Radio speaking will be able to add enough to merit its own non-stub article, I've proposed that it get merged into Individual events (speech and debate). Kathy A. 19:02, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Agreed, unless substantial unique information is added to Radio speaking. As a former Radio Speaking competitor, I know that while I love the event, it isn't one of the most widespread events nationally, and it seems rather premature for it to have its own page, particularly with little additional content on it. Stewunit 06:44, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge ADS and SOS
While the article states that after dinner speaking and special occasion speaking differ in that ADS is only present in college, and SOS only in high school, both events are very similar, and I'd recommend merging them into an 'After Dinner Speaking/Special Occasion Speaking' section, including a line about the fact that one is a high school event, and one is a college event. For a bit of background - in Illinois, ADS was an event until 1972, and SOS was run for the first time in 1973. While I have no direct proof, given the similarity of the events, I assume that SOS replaced ADS (see IHSA individual champions). I believe this example strengthens an already strong case for a merge. Stewunit 06:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
