Prompts for Practice: National Online Forensics Summer Practice Prompts

At NOF, we pride ourselves on crafting unique prompts for our tournaments. Once a competition concludes, we believe in giving students the chance to continue honing their skills with these prompts outside the competitive arena.

Below, you'll find a collection of prompts from categories like Impromptu, SPAR, NOF Parli, and Extemporaneous from our most recent tournament. We trust these will serve as valuable practice material for your upcoming competitions!

Impromptu:

• Brain

• Liberty

• Customer service

• There's no such thing as bad publicity.

• Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. --Albert Einstein

• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

SPAR:

• Street security cameras are good for society

• Prisoners have a right to privacy

• Beauty pageants do more good than harm

• Election day should be an official holiday in the US

Extemp:

• Why have student protests against the Israel-Hamas War received a more negative reaction compared to other university protests?

• Should Ukraine be permitted to use donated military weapons for operations inside Russian territory?

• Should Ireland increase its contributions to European collective defense efforts?

IPDA:

• China should pay Korea for the damage done by the fine dust from their factories

• Animal dissection should be a part of biology class

• Military conscription is unjust.

• Space exploration is good for international relations