by BrennaBakke | Dec 17, 2012 | Research Tips
I’ll never forget the moment. It was my third year of debate (revenue generation policies) and my partner and I were at our second tournament together. Both of us hated research and our evidence box was in a very sorry shape. In round 2, we hit a young team that ran a...
by Kara Stivers | Dec 6, 2012 | Coaching
When I first joined debate, I remember my coaches were constantly touting the benefits of forensics for real life. They had past debaters come to our club and talk to us about how helpful the experience was for them. To be perfectly honest, I didn’t pay much...
by Rebecca Frazer | Nov 30, 2012 | From Intermediate to Advanced
I was not nervous. Sure, I was standing in front of several hundred people in the eleventh and final team policy debate round of the 2012 NCFCA National Championships. Yes, I was competing for a national title. Yes, I was negative against a case I had never remotely...
by Drew | Nov 19, 2012 | Lincoln-Douglas, Strategy
I wrote a version of this for HSD (homeschooldebate.com) a while back, but the Ethos blog-master wanted me to write up a version for Ethos in case you missed the article before. This article is more closely affiliated with a stream of consciousness, than a...
by Zack Voell | Nov 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” –...