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Post by timisonline on Jul 8, 2008 20:57:35 GMT -5
Okay, so I've noticed that there are so many articles on every site you could use for extemp that you can't possibly cut them all. You obviously can't cut the whole newspaper. But how do you know what to cut? Do you just look at a site, look at an article and say 'Hmm, that's a good one'? Or do you learn the issues and THEN cut articles that help give information/opinions about that issue?
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Post by Logan Scisco on Jul 10, 2008 20:45:43 GMT -5
Great question. Since you indicated in your previous post that you were a novice, I totally understand your confusion. When I first began extemp "clipping" I was befuddled over what I needed to cut as well. However, here's the question you should ask yourself when looking over an article: "Will I get a question on the information contained in this article in the near future?" If you can imagine a question to yourself that could get asked of you about the article then its worth cutting.
Usually articles that talk about political situations in all countries are worth cutting. Furthermore, articles about the economy of various countries as a whole are worth cutting (I'm talking broad econ articles here...not necessarily articles about the French wine industry). Also, topics on U.S. social issues such as poverty, Social Security, Medicare, health care, etc. are worth cutting.
To get a better idea, you might want to look at the "archives" for questions on the website to get an idea of what questions might pop up around the country.
Any other clarification on this, just ask.
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Post by timisonline on Jul 28, 2008 13:37:49 GMT -5
Okay, I go to somewhere like the Christian Science Monitor and most of the articles concern something that has a reasonable chance of appearing as an extemp question. I've printed three articles so far and that's 12 pages. Do you subscribe to these magazines or do you print them? I don't understand how extempers avoid printing 100s of pages every day.
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Post by Logan Scisco on Jul 28, 2008 17:25:43 GMT -5
When I competed my team had subscriptions to the Economist, the Wall Street Journal (the paper), Foreign Affairs, World Press Review, and Business Week. I also had a subscription to Newsweek that I cut. I would say that you would be best served cutting the Economist online as opposed to its print copy because the Economist puts 2-3 stories on a page and photocopying/x-ing out stories by pen gets old real fast....oh the old days.
If its possible, try to negotiate with your coach to get the school to give the team some type of printing/copy budget on the school's copier. This can make this practice easier. Also, try to print front & back to save space in your file box/not waste paper. It's best sometimes if you cut and paste things into a Microsoft Word document and format it there to avoid wasting paper with hanging sentences/etc.
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Post by timisonline on Jul 30, 2008 18:35:29 GMT -5
Say you have an article like one recently which discussed the relationship between Thailand and Cambodia. You photocopy it and put it in Thailand. Would NFL allow you to put a note in Cambodia's file saying 'SEE THAILAND FOR THAILAND-CAMBODIA RELATIONSHIP' because they seem really strict about those things.
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Post by Logan Scisco on Aug 1, 2008 22:02:56 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the NFL ruling could be in that situation. As long as you don't have brief books/outlines of speeches you are usually in the clear. However, you could photocopy that same article twice (one for the Cambodia and one for the Thailand file) to make things easier.
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