The Marshall University Speech and Debate Team is composed of students who are interested in enhancing their public speaking through competition.
 
Team members compete in four basic areas:
 
  • oral interpretation of prose, poetry, and drama
  • prepared speeches (informative, persuasive, after dinner, rhetorical criticism)
  • limited preparation speeches (impromptu, extemporaneous)
  • Lincoln-Douglas debate & parliamentary debate
 
Each semester team members travel to other colleges and universities to compete in speech and debate tournaments.  On average students travel about four times a semester.
 
For information about the MU Speech and Debate Team, contact Danny Ray, the Director of Forensics, at 304 654-0587 or ray102@marshall.edu.
 
For information about the John Marshall Tournament, click here.

  

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One John Marshall Drive
Huntington, WV 25755-2632
Phone: (304) 696-6786 Fax: (304) 696-2814
 

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