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If you were to study an instrument by hiring a musician to give you private lessons, you would find that each instructor has their own personal approach to learning music. Learning to debate in front of an audience is similar. No two debate coaches emphasize the same...

Advanced Affirmatives

One of the ways that you can advance your skill set when you’re debating on the affirmative side of the topic is bringing an understanding of morality. There’s an awesome historical reference, a guy named Emmanuel Levinas, and what Levinas, who says ethics...

Recording Speeches

There has been a rapid and significant increase in the amount of technology designed for human communication over the last twenty years, and the importance of video communication in particular has only increased since the pandemic. People are going to have to adapt to...

Permutations

There is another strategy that has been developed to answer counterplans, and it requires its own section. Imagine a debate where the affirmative proposes a plan, and the negative proposes a counterplan. One expects the second affirmative to make typical responses,...
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