by Noah Howard | Feb 21, 2017 | Coaching, From Intermediate to Advanced, Soapbox
This is it. This is what you’ve been waiting for. The stage is set. You’ve been wanting to debate in finals for two years, and now you finally get your chance. As you walk up the steps to take your place, you can’t help feeling like a champion already. Even though you...
by Anna Johansen | Feb 20, 2017 | Debate Rounds, Technique, Tournaments
It started the moment my alarm began its song and dance routine, vibrating on the table next to the bed. A spike of instantaneous, high-voltage adrenaline and I shot out of bed and across the room in full panic mode, my fight-or-flight instincts going ballistic. It...
by Giovanni Segar | Feb 19, 2017 | Communication/Rhetoric, Featured, Guest Posts, Soapbox
When I was fourteen, I was a computer nerd. I would grab 1,000-page behemoth books about programming and shred through them. My computery world went upside down when my mom met a fellow homeschool, Christian family at the YMCA: they had recently started up a speech...
by Harrison Durland | Feb 17, 2017 | Technique
In the past two parts in this series, we’ve delivered a glossary of fallacies for you to use in identifying fallacious argumentation in your next round. However, just calling an argument a fallcy isn’t enough to kill it. So how do you take down fallacies?...
by emilyerose | Feb 16, 2017 | Ethos Info
If you’re on this site, it means one of two things: You’re procrastinating something important. You want to improve your debate skillset. They aren’t mutually exclusive, don’t worry. But if you’re serious about improving, give our...
