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Allowed Extemp Prep Room Materials |
- Magazines, newspapers, journals
(Examples: Newsweek, Dallas Morning News, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs that may be highlighted in one color)
- Other published source materials
(Examples: reference books, Facts on File, atlas, book of quotations)
- Published speeches
(Examples: the presidential State of the Union address, Vital Speeches)
- Online materials
(Examples: printouts of published material from computer online data services if not modified or in outline form that include the downloaded URL, the White House web site)
- Index without annotation
(Example: computer or hand-written list of subject titles/dates of magazines or folders included in the files)
Unallowed Extemp Prep Room Materials
- Outlines
(Examples: multi-colored highlighted articles that could be interpreted as an outline, outlines from previous speeches, debate briefs, pre-prepared outlines on possible topics)
- Prepared notes, extemp speeches, debate evidence handbooks
(Examples: extemp subscription service analyses, database summaries of multiple sources on a specific topic)
- Unpublished handwritten or typed material other than an index
(Examples: one or more articles cut and pasted into a single document, previously used extemp notecards, flow of a debate round)
- Computer or other electronic retrieval device
(Examples: Palm Pilot, cell phone, lap top computer)
- Index with annotations
(Example: title of article, with added comment, "great pro-con article on global warming")
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