Extemporaneous Speaking - UIL Extemporaneous Speaking

UIL Extemporaneous Speaking

The University Interscholastic League offers Extemp as a competitive event. Although it sometimes varies, generally in a UIL tournament the speaker will either be Informative or Persuasive. The speaker may get a foreign or domestic topic. Regardless whether informative or persuasive the speaker will have a certain speaker number. This speaker number is the order in which the speakers speak to the judge (Ex: Speaker #1 will speak first and Speaker #3 will speak third). One speaker from each room will draw a topic every 7–10 minutes. When drawing a topic the speaker will draw 3 or 5 topic slips (Varies from tournament to tournament) and they will get to choose which of these topics their speech will be over. Once a speaker picks a topic and returns the remaining topic slips back to the envelope they may not change their topic.

The speaker is given 30 Minutes of prep time in order to construct up to a 7 minute speech on their topic. The speaker may use the following in preparing their speech:

1)Magazines, newspapers, journals (Examples: Newsweek, Dallas Morning News, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs that may be highlighted in one color)

2)Other published source materials (Examples: reference books, Facts on File, atlas, book of quotations)

3)Published speeches (Examples: the presidential State of the Union address, Vital Speeches)

4)Online materials (Examples: printouts of published material from computer online data services if not modified or in outline form that include the downloaded URL, the White House web site)

5)Index without annotation (Example: computer or hand-written list of subject titles/dates of magazines or folders included in the files)

The following materials are NOT allowed in the prep room:

1)Outlines (Examples: multi-colored highlighted articles that could be interpreted as an outline, outlines from previous speeches, debate briefs, pre-prepared outlines on possible topics)

2)Prepared notes, extemp speeches, debate evidence handbooks (Examples: extemp subscription service analyses, database summaries of multiple sources on a specific topic)

3)Unpublished handwritten or typed material other than an index (Examples: one or more articles cut and pasted into a single document, previously used extemp notecards, flow of a debate round)

4)Computer or other electronic retrieval device (Examples: Palm Pilot, cell phone, lap top computer) Index with annotations (Example: title of article, with added comment, "great pro-con article on global warming")

NOTE:After the 2010-2011 school year the UIL will allow computers into the extemp prep room WITHOUT internet.