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Editor's Note, Randy Richardson
Better Pleasing The Court: How The American Collegiate Moot Court Association Can Improve Its Competition, Alan R. Gray Jr.
Better Pleasing The Court: How The American Collegiate Moot Court Association Can Improve Its Competition, Alan R. Gray Jr.
National Forensic Journal
The American Collegiate Moot Court Association strives to educate undergraduates about the American legal system through participation in moot court, a simulated oral argument before an appellate court. Its competition structure, however, suffers from defects that undermine the educational value of the event. This article argues that the ACMCA ought to adopt certain reforms in its operational structure, including geographically locking its regional competitions, abandoning its practice of power-matching preliminary rounds, and rewriting its judging ballot. These goals would not only enhance the quality of the legal education received by its participants, but improve students’ forensic learning experience as well.
The Success Gap, Katie Donovan
The Success Gap, Katie Donovan
National Forensic Journal
When Lisa Uhrig, Cathie Craig and Ruth Brisbain won Impromptu, ADS and Persuasive at the 1971 National Forensics Association National Tournament, the forensics community breathed a collective sigh of relief. These women had won three of the six events the NFA offered at the time. Apparently, the lack of women in the activity had been solved. Over the next several decades teams were encouraged to diversify and include more women. However, while these efforts brought women into the activity, they failed to create a culture of equal success between men and women in forensics. Instead, we have considered the issue …
Small World: A Forensic Dialectic, Jamie Bingham, Kylia Goodner
Small World: A Forensic Dialectic, Jamie Bingham, Kylia Goodner
National Forensic Journal
No abstract provided.
21 Building Bridges: Connecting Performance Studies And Forensic Oral Interpretation, Alyssa Reid
21 Building Bridges: Connecting Performance Studies And Forensic Oral Interpretation, Alyssa Reid
National Forensic Journal
Forensic educators have faced long standing criticism, within our discipline and beyond, in regards to the true educational benefits of forensic competition with particular scrutiny towards oral interpretation events. Although forensic interpretation events may seem like fun raucous performances, they are in many ways are grounded in sound pedagogy of oral interpretation scholarship. However in recent years, forensic oral interpretation has evolved to move beyond mere rendering of a text. In many ways forensic interpretation has shifted towards a paradigm of performance studies. Therefore, I shall reexplore past criticisms of forensic interp in order to argue for new ways to …
Connecting Past And Present: A Rhetorical Analysis Of How Forensics Programs Use Storytelling To Promote Team Legacy, Stephanie Orme
Connecting Past And Present: A Rhetorical Analysis Of How Forensics Programs Use Storytelling To Promote Team Legacy, Stephanie Orme
National Forensic Journal
Given forensics programs' status as organizations at academic institutions, these teams experience changes in membership far more often than typical organizations. Each year, a team will graduate a class of seniors who, through their four years as a competitor, have helped shape the program's culture and legacy in numerous ways. Yet this void left by the graduating members is then filled by the incoming freshman or transfer student competitors who will now play a part in reshaping the team's culture. This constant change in organizational culture makes it vital that forensic programs go to extra lengths to ensure that their …
Special Section – Critical Thought In The Age Of Forensics, Bruce Wickelgren
Special Section – Critical Thought In The Age Of Forensics, Bruce Wickelgren
National Forensic Journal
No abstract provided.
Questions Surrounding Questions: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Use Of Research Questions In Academic Writing, Stephanie Orme
Questions Surrounding Questions: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Use Of Research Questions In Academic Writing, Stephanie Orme
National Forensic Journal
The fact that researchers have begun to question the potentially unethical use of questions in research, and that the research question has become an increasing presence in all scholarly rhetorical criticism– including 99% of the speeches you will see this year– the use of the research question in a venue that has traditionally avoided it merits investigation. So in order to explore the objectivity and academic effectiveness of research questions in our field, I performed a content analysis of top rhetoric journals using Hyland’s method for analyzing questions found in the article “What do they mean? Questions in Academic 54 …
The Official Language Of Academic Debate, Marcus Paroske
The Official Language Of Academic Debate, Marcus Paroske
National Forensic Journal
Academic debate continues to face the long term issue of how to reconcile competing philosophies of argument pedagogy and competitive practice, especially between adherents technical and civic debate theories. Using the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, this essay offers an analysis of this division, focusing on the role of dominant language formation and the role fluency plays in constituting power dynamic in the activity. The conception of a translation approach to judging is offered as a remedy for the exclusionary effects of technical language use in debate.
Biological Sex As A Predictor Of Competitive Success In Intercollegiate Forensics, Kiranjeet Dhillon, April Larson
Biological Sex As A Predictor Of Competitive Success In Intercollegiate Forensics, Kiranjeet Dhillon, April Larson
National Forensic Journal
This study examines biological sex as a predictor of the level of success in intercollegiate policy debate, impromptu speaking, and extemporaneous speaking. Secondary data analysis of tabulation sheets from NDT, AFA-NIET, and NFA, revealed three findings. First, there are more male than female competitors in policy debate and males significantly experienced more out-round success than females. Second, there are more males than females in impromptu speaking; however, there was no significance between biological sex and success in out-rounds. Third, there are more male than female competitors in extemporaneous speaking and males significantly experienced more out-round success than females.
They Know What They're Doing But They Don't Know Why: A Theoretical Exploration Of Intertextuality In Interpretation Events, Megan Orcholski, Dan Cronn-Mills
They Know What They're Doing But They Don't Know Why: A Theoretical Exploration Of Intertextuality In Interpretation Events, Megan Orcholski, Dan Cronn-Mills
National Forensic Journal
Our agenda is to offer a conceptual/theoretical understanding of the post-structural approach to literature interpretation/performance. We make a practice of the theory in the construction of the paper—we allow the text to speak for itself. We provide a juxtaposition numerous authors. We focus on the text rather than the author. We offer the following reading instructions: Please read the text as a whole and skimming the referential notations. The citations are provided for readers who wish to further the topic. We realize we depart from the traditional academic writing form. The common occurrence of the style in competition underscores the …
Reframing Competitive Critical Analyses: An Argument For Education-Application Based Methods For Speech Writing In Ca And Rhetorical Criticism, Katherine L. Hatfield-Edstrom
Reframing Competitive Critical Analyses: An Argument For Education-Application Based Methods For Speech Writing In Ca And Rhetorical Criticism, Katherine L. Hatfield-Edstrom
National Forensic Journal
This project offers a contemporary exemplar that students and coaches in competitive speech, specifically in the events of rhetorical criticism or communication analysis can use to help reframe traditional notions or methods of how to write a speech for competition. I contend that the event in competition has become too “cookie-cutter” and devoid of innovation or “thinking outside the box,” which can limit the educational experience for our students. Thus, this project begins as a full critical analysis employing the theoretical framework of public memory and follows with a discussion of how a student in competitive speech could approach the …
After Dinner Speaking: Problems, Causes, And Still No Solutions, Brandi Lawless
After Dinner Speaking: Problems, Causes, And Still No Solutions, Brandi Lawless
National Forensic Journal
Since its adoption as a competitive event, After Dinner Speaking has been critiqued and criticized by several scholars. Despite the quantity of literature produced on this topic, changes to the event have been minimal. This author chooses to look at four areas of controversy including: defining the event, differentiating After Dinner Speaking from Speech to Entertain, differentiating After Dinner Speaking from other platform events, and developing a judging standard for this event. With the use of humor, this paper not only examines these problems, but also the need for discussion surrounding the pedagogical goals of After Dinner Speaking as a …
Perspectives On Individual Events: Proceedings Of The First Developmental Conference On Individual Events, Larry Schnoor, Vicki Karns
Perspectives On Individual Events: Proceedings Of The First Developmental Conference On Individual Events, Larry Schnoor, Vicki Karns
Proceedings of the National Developmental Conference on Individual Events
The First NDC-IE conference was held in Denver, Colorado in the summer of 1988. A total of 81 participants met for 3 days to regroup, reflect, and plan the future of forensics. By breaking into panel sessions for presentations and discussions the participants collaborated to reach consensus on guidelines for the future of the activity. The first NDC-IE included papers written on topics ranging from judge training to the role of graduate assistants to fostering better connections with high school programs to ethics in forensics. The conference concluded with a general business meeting where participants proposed resolutions for the forensics …
Complete Issue 45(4)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 4, May 1963) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Complete Issue 45(4)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 4, May 1963) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 45(3)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 3, March 1963) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Complete Issue 45(3)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 3, March 1963) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 45(2)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 2, January 1963) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Complete Issue 45(2)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 2, January 1963) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 45(1)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 1, November 1962) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Complete Issue 45(1)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 45, issue 1, November 1962) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 44(4)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 44, issue 4, May 1962) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Complete Issue 44(4)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 44, issue 4, May 1962) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 44(3)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 44, issue 3, March 1962) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 44(2)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 44, issue 2, January 1962) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Complete Issue 44(2)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 44, issue 2, January 1962) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 44(1)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 44, issue 1, November 1961) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.
Complete Issue 44(1)
The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho
Complete digitized issue (volume 44, issue 1, November 1961) of The Gavel of Delta Sigma Rho.
Complete Issue 43(4)
The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha
Complete digitized issue (volume 43, issue 4, May 1961) of The Speaker of Tau Kappa Alpha.