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Six steps you can do to improve your manner

Post author By Rachelle Amadea
Post date March 13, 2022
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Here are 6 easy steps you can do during and outside of your debate practice to enhance your speaking manner.

Tags fluency, imitation, speech

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Time management: making every second of your speech count

Post author By Jen Taruno
Post date February 18, 2022
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Find yourself going undertime or overtime, and confused how to fix it? Want to master time allocation in your speech? Here’s how.

Tags air, allocation, balance, conclusion, deputy, leader of opposition, management, member, negative, opening, overtime, poi, prime minister, setup, speaker, speech, strategy, structure, style, time, undertime, whip

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Debate like a designer: why you should simplify your speeches

Post author By Jen Taruno
Post date February 15, 2022
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Jen’s 1st speaker speech GDoc is included to demonstrate this personal take: the most dangerous speeches are the ones that are easiest to digest.

Tags casebuild, design, doc, EFL, emphasis, esl, flow, intuition, language, layer, note, number, paper, point, prioritisation, prioritization, priority, signpost, simple, speech, strategy, structure, style, template, title

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An EFL’s formula for effective opening lines

Post author By Jen Taruno
Post date September 12, 2021
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As an EFL debater, the way I get around thinking of good opening lines is by having a formula ready.

Tags EFL, emphasis, opening, strategy