Style

  • Date 2022-07-25

General Definition: How one delivers speeches, including techniques like tone, pitch, rate, facial expressions, gestures, volume, eye contact, word choice, etc.

  • Public Forum: Commonly used. In PF, style is typically evaluated as part of a debater’s “Speaker Points“, although it may influence the judge’s perception of their arguments as well.
  • World Schools Debate: Commonly used. In WSD, this is 40% of a judge’s ballot. Use of notes is only penalized if the speaker spends a majority of their speech time reading from notes.
  • British Parliamentary: Commonly used. In BP, debaters are not directly judged on style, although it may influence the judge’s perception of their arguments.
  • Canadian National Debate Format: Commonly used. In CNDF, debaters are not directly judged on style, although it may influence the judge’s perception of their arguments.