by Isaiah McPeak | Oct 7, 2010 | Coaching, Strategy
Not to be confused with Alternative Justification Analysis Cases (AJACs), the “mini-case” format offers more than one justification for the resolution. What? Step back a second and think about what an affirmative case actually is saying. You are showing...
by Isaiah McPeak | Oct 1, 2010 | Coaching, Example Rounds, Briefs, and Case Studies
I previously posted about how to write a 1AC. To help, I thought I’d provide an example of one of my favorite cases… it won me several tournaments in college. Example 1AC Because American Public High schools could better meet the needs of individual...
by Isaiah McPeak | Sep 29, 2010 | Coaching
How should you format your first 1AC? First, let’s give two example outlines. Second, realize which stock issues are proven where. Third, we’ll talk about the actual writing. I. Example Outlines Plan-Meet-Need case structure looks like this: I....
by Patrick S | Sep 20, 2010 | Featured, From Advanced to National-Class, Strategy
We have a problem in the debate community. It’s not bad evidence that I’m referring to. It’s not shallow argumentation. It’s not a lack of thinking. It’s not poor judging. Those are all problems, of course, but they’re not the...
by Isaiah McPeak | Sep 14, 2010 | Example Rounds, Briefs, and Case Studies, From Advanced to National-Class, Strategy
We often advocate taking risks in our blogging and coaching. You have no chance as an intermediate team against an experienced team through “straight refutation” that they are ready for and has failed dozens of times. Sometimes you need to try the hail...
by Andrew Min | Sep 13, 2010 | Coaching
Note to readers: any other tips you can think of would be much appreciated – please comment! The most important thing I’ve learned is that TP is not an individual event. You can do all the brief writing yourself… but if you do, you’ll probably...
