When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Extemporaneous speaking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extemporaneous_speaking

    Extemporaneous Speaking (Extemp, or EXT) is a speech delivery style/speaking style, and a term that identifies a specific forensic competition.The competition is a speech event based on research and original analysis, done with a limited-preparation; in the United States those competitions are held for high school and college students.

  3. Individual events (speech) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_events_(speech)

    Extemporaneous speaking is a speech given with little preparation and traditionally without access to the internet for citation (Though many states have opted to allow the use of internet). [4] At the beginning of a round, speakers are usually given three questions relating to current events and asked to choose one on which to prepare a speech.

  4. Extemporaneous commentary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extemporaneous_Commentary

    Extemporaneous commentary (or extemp com for short) is a branch of normal extemporaneous speaking, an area of competition in high school forensics. Students participating in extemporaneous commentary are given 20 minutes to prepare a five-minute speech (with a 30-second grace period) on a topic relevant to modern politics.

  5. American Forensic Association National Speech Tournament

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Forensic...

    The competitor will select one of the three topics, and is then given 30 minutes to prepare an original speech utilizing multiple sources. Due to its preparation time, extemporaneous speaking is the only AFA-sponsored event where competitors speak in a previously assigned order which is generally not flexible or subject to change. [11]

  6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having...

    in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between UK & US; an English-speaking accent with features of both British and American speakers region of the U.S. that includes all or some of the states between New York and South Carolina [4] (exact definition of Mid-Atlantic States may vary) middle class

  7. National Speech and Debate Association - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Speech_and_Debate...

    The National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) is the largest interscholastic speech and debate organization serving middle school and high school students in the United States. [1] It was formed as the National Forensic League in 1925 by Bruno Ernst Jacob .

  8. Donald Trump speaks at a fourth-grade level, the lowest of ...

    www.aol.com/news/donald-trump-speaks-fourth...

    President Donald Trump connects with the American people by using a language that even a fourth grader could understand, according to a recently published analysis by Factbase on the speech ...

  9. Elocution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elocution

    Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms. It stems from the idea that while communication is symbolic, sounds are final and compelling. [1] [2]