by Catherine Alles | Sep 12, 2018 | Communication/Rhetoric, Strategy
This post is from longtime debater and speaker Catherine Alles. Catherine competed in TP with NCFCA for 5 years, and qualified to Nationals all 4 years of high school. Look for more posts from her over the next few months! When a doctor injects a patient with a...
by Harrison Durland | May 26, 2018 | Communication/Rhetoric, Speaking
Specific/Advanced Techniques and Devices After the last post on more general techniques, this post will focus more on the concrete speech devices you can implement. However, as mentioned before, you don’t want to go overboard with these devices or use them without any...
by Harrison Durland | May 19, 2018 | Speaking, Technique
In this post, Harrison discusses some basic principles to keep in mind when speaking to a larger audience. Next time, he’ll cover more specific techniques and action steps. Since coming to college, I’ve participated in multiple debate rounds where we invite...
by Joshua Farquhar | May 16, 2018 | Strategy
This post is a continuation of Joshua’s discussion about World School Debate, covering some of its techniques and how they can be applied across debate forms. Team lines Being the human species, we have a tendency to get off track. Whether that means...