An investigation, analysis, and presentation of the lives of public figures could be highly interesting and entertaining. However, not all avenues of persuasion outside of forensics are nearly as focused. Students could learn far more about persuasion by exploring it in all its formulations. Students in Persuasion have, on occasion, written and presented persuasions of fact or value, but with very limited success. Coaches and judges in the activity are not acclimated to the styles and structures of such persuasion strategies.
Speech needs action steps.
The judges, due to their own limited experience, were not adequately prepared for persuasions outside the policy tradition. Your expectation of action steps will not be found in this speech. My intent is . . . . All interpretation events really do sound alike. A judge or competitor can have real trouble distinguishing between prose, poetry and drama in many rounds of competition.