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A speech and debate course offers instruction in the principles of effective oral delivery, including body control, use of voice and diction, and analysis of audience. |
True |
Speeches can serve to inform, persuade, or entertain. |
True |
Critical thinking, logical argumentation, parliamentary (government) procedures, and effective language are applied in learning discussion and debate techniques. |
True |
There's no need for ideas and arguments in speeches to be supported, persuasive, and/or complex. |
False |
All speeches are free of ambiguities, subtleties, contradictions, ironies, and incongruities. |
False |
Debate involves a presentation by one, two, or sometimes a group of students that is judged against a similar type of presentation by other in a round competition. |
False |
Speech involves an individual or a team of debaters working to effectively convince a judge that his or her side of a resolution is, as a general principle, more valid. |
False |