by Noah Howard | Mar 10, 2017 | Communication/Rhetoric, Technique
It was nationals 2016. Going into the tournament, I knew my partner and I had a relatively good chance at breaking. We had been here before, and this time we had strategies against almost every case out there. Almost every case. The only case we didn’t prep at all was...
by emilyerose | Mar 6, 2017 | Communication/Rhetoric, Strategy, Thinking Strategically
“Drew, this is TP. This isn’t LD. Morals don’t matter here.” I actually had a debater say this to me while discussing a neg strategy. My approach was to focus on how the US as a world leader has an obligation to act lawfully and obey international norms....
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 Noah Howard | Dec 30, 2016 | Coaching, Communication/Rhetoric, From Intermediate to Advanced, Technique
At my first debate camp, I learned to debate within a structure that made my nerves go away and my confidence appear. At my first practice tournament, I argued within a framework that allowed me to understand the complex ideas that I was discussing. And at my first...
by Isaiah McPeak | Dec 15, 2016 | Communication/Rhetoric, Technique, Video
Dr. Tallmon, rhetoric professor, former Patrick Henry College director of debate, and curator of the amazing Rhetoric Ring, visited Lone Star CC the other day. We recorded his talk to debaters. You should definitely watch this one! It frames what debaters are doing...
by Anna Johansen | Nov 7, 2016 | Communication/Rhetoric, From Advanced to National-Class, Technique
The crowd roared. The phrase whips up images of excited football fans. Of theater-goers as the curtain falls. Of Wrigley Field during Game 7. Or, perhaps, of a supportive audience at a campaign rally. The crowd roared. During the 1996 presidential race, it wasn’t just...
