Talk:Individual events (speech)

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)

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)

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)

The National Forensic League (NFL)

Phi Rho Pi

American Readers Theater association (ARTa)

The National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA)

The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA)

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.

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).

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)
 * Merge completed with a simple redirect from the page. --YbborTalk Survey! 02:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

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)

Merge Speech and Debate
This article ought to be merged with the Debate page. This is for the sole reason that NFL tournaments host both Speech events and Debate events. When the pages are merged, speakers and debaters can get information without having to waste time. Borat55 04:59, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Move
Because the title of this page references both speech and debate, yet debate events like Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, and Policy Debate are not referenced (nor is congress for that matter), I propose that this page be moved to Individual events (speech). --YbborTalk 01:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I second Ybbor's suggestion, and disagree with Borat55's, because NFL is not the only "brand" of forensics competition, and is not necessarily representative of all variations. This page does contain only information on Individual Events, and as such should be renamed "Individual Events (speech)". I'd suggest adding a link to debate's page, as well. Stewunit 00:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

In fact, I agreed so strongly with Ybbor that I went ahead and did the move. I think it was a straightforward decision, because there really was no Debate-related information on this page. Stewunit 00:20, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Multiples?!?!?!
In Michigan, we have an event called Multiple Interpretation. I'm not sure if that is in any other state because it isn't mentioned at all in this article. If it does exist in other states, I would be willing to add it to the article but only if it isn't only in Michigan.Bovineboy2008 21:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Merge from Impromptu speaking
They cover the same topic, and are both fairly short. No reason to have this topic in two places. Chris the speller (talk) 18:39, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Impromptu speaking has diverged from what it was a year ago, and it was expanded so much that a merge is pointless, now. Thus, I am going to remove the tag. --Omnipaedista (talk) 12:40, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Merge DI and SI
A whole new section merely because something has a difference in material requirements is a bit extraneous. Furthermore, the National Forensic League most certainly does not demand DI material be from a theatrical script. I've no clue about the other leagues, but under those definitions, SI would be a NFL event. Dvnwlkr (talk) 03:25, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

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Rename?
Is there a better name for this? I think the page is about high-school speaking competitions, but the title and references give no definite indication that this is the case. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 01:54, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

I totally agree. To most casual readers, the word "speech" in the title sounds like it would refer to the act of speaking. "Individual events" would then be discrete phonemes, I suppose. Perhaps a better title would be "Individual events (public speaking)" or Individual events (competitive speech)", or something else.--Keeves (talk) 13:34, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

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