Mastering Championship Debate
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Author(s) and/or Contributor(s): Andrew Bradt & Caitlin Talmadge
Description: What is policy debate? How do you argue inherency? The concept of fiat. Counterplans and presumption. Handling kritiks. How do you adapt for a stock issues judge? What is a policymaking paradigm? What about hypothesis testing? Writing and selecting an affirmative case. Structuring disadvantages. Kicking out of a disadvantage. Debating topicality. Working with your partner. First negative strategies. Effective cross-examination. Delivering the first negative rebuttal. Perfect affirmative rebuttals. Raising your speaker points. Becoming a champion!
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Table of Contents
Section One: General Information ……………………………………………………………………………….. 1
1.1: Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1
1.2: The Most Basic Basics …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2
1.3: Basic Format of a Debate …………………………………………………………………………………………. 4
1.4: Basic Debate Terms ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 8
1.5: Tournament Tips ……………………………………………………… …………………………………………. 14
1.6: Disclosure, Debate Etiquette, and Ethical Matters …………………………………………………….. 16
Section Two: Paradigms of Debate …………………………………………………………………………….. 20
2.1: Stock Issues……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 20
2.2: Policy-making ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….24
2.3: Hypothesis-testing …………………………………………………………………………………………………26
2.4: Judge Adaptation …………………………………………………………………………………………………..27
Section Three: Research and Preparing to Debate ………………………………………………………. 35
3.1: Role of Evidence in Debate ……………………………………………………………………………………. 35
3.2: Research Tips ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….36
3.3: Selecting the Affirmative Case ……………………………………………………………………………….. 38
3.4: Writing the Affirmative Case …………………………………………………………………………………. 40
3.5: Structuring Disadvantages ……………………………………………………………………………………… 42
3.6: Making Briefs ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 43
3.7: Filing …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………45
Section Four: Arguments …………………………………………………………………………………………… 48
4.1: Extending Disadvantages ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 48
4.2: Kicking Out of Disadvantages …………………………………………………………………………….. 53
4.3: Impact Analysis …………………………………………………………………………………………………….54
4.4: Debating Topicality ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 56
4.5: Introduction to the Counterplan ………………………………………………………………………………. 61
4.6: Examples of Counterplans ……………………………………………………………………………………… 68
4.7: Counterplan Theory ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 71
4.8: Introduction to the Kritik ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 72
Section Five: Speaking ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 78
5.1: Speed in Debate ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 78
5.2: Flowing ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 79
5.3: First Affirmative (1A) ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 82
5.4: First Negative (1N) ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 88
5.5: Second Affirmative (2A) ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 94
5.6: Second Negative (2N) ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 102
5.7: Raising Your Speaker Points Fast! ……………………………………………………………………… 111
5.8: Speaking Drills …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 114
5.9: Cross-Examination ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 116
5.10: Insides & Outsides …………………………………………………………………………………………….. 117
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