by Kyle Lee | Jan 19, 2021 | Debate, From Intermediate to Advanced, LD, Thinking Strategically
One of the first logical fallacies I ever learned about was the “Part to Whole” fallacy, arguing that one part of a larger category represents the whole category. For instance: “This tire is made of rubber. Therefore the vehicle of which the tire is a part is also...
by Kyle Lee | Jan 5, 2021 | From Intermediate to Advanced, Negative, Strategy
Throughout my career in Team Policy Debate, I’ve always tried my hardest to brief every case I could and figure out all the cases at the tournament as soon as possible. I’ve spent late nights after tournament competition staying up to research cases and...
by Kyle Lee | Dec 22, 2020 | Cross Examination, From Intermediate to Advanced
What would you say is the ideal cross-examination? Ideas like “a cross-examination that makes your opponents admit their faults” or “asking questions that strengthen your case” may come to mind. However, there’s a unique feature of...
by Kyle Lee | Dec 8, 2020 | Parliamentary, Strategy, Technique, Uncategorized
This is the second installment in a two part series about answering points of information. The first two rules can be found here. Last article we discussed how to setup points of information through transitioning and when to reject points of information. In this post...
by Kyle Lee | Nov 24, 2020 | Parliamentary
“Point of information.”*stops mid-sentence* “um I’ll uh take your point.” As I stuttered through my first ever answer to a point of information in parliamentary debate, I noticed that points of information are nothing like...
