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Events Needing General Research
Public Address Events
- Persuasive Speaking : Convince, stimulate, or actuate the audience concerning some significant issue.
- Informative Speaking : Describe, clarify, define or explain an object, idea, concept or process.
- Communication Anaylsis : The subject may be a single speech, a single speaker, the rhetoric of a movement, or any other legitimate communication event. The speaker then analyzes the impact of the subject using communication theory found in a journal article or the like.
Limited Preparation Events
- Exemporaneous Speaking : The contestant is given a choice of three topics concerned with national, international, or economic current events occurring within the previous 90 days.
- Parliamentary Debate : Teams of two are given a topic of a philosophical, value, or policy nature 15 minutes before the debate is to happen.
For more infomation on these events check the team website or contact the team advisors.
Locating Resources
The Locating Sources section of the Research Fundamentals Guide will help you with most of these needs. See also the sections of the Forensics Guide that deal with Current Events and Hot Topics. Don't forget to evaluate your sources so that they have the most impact.
For the Communication Anaylsis event, in addition to the resources you may use above, be sure to use the database Communication and Mass Media Complete.
Feel free to contact the Reference Desk or the Communications Librarian for help in locating resources.
This guide was last updated July 10, 2007.
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