by Lisa Alexander | Nov 30, 2009 | Coaching, Featured, Strategy
Editors note: Ethos has written on extra topicality more than once; for an alternative view on this theory issue, you can also read this article. Effects topicality and extra topicality tend to bring on quite a bit of confusion within a debate round. Often, teams will...
by Lisa Alexander | Nov 9, 2009 | Coaching, Strategy
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” – Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes cited by Jennifer R....
by Patrick S | Oct 16, 2009 | Strategy
[Author’s note: If you’re completely uninitiated in Topicality, I recommend reading Coach Jen’s Topicality article from Ethos, as well as the article “Debating Topicality” by Stefan Bauschard (Debate coach for Harvard University). It’s an...
by Isaiah McPeak | Jan 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Peter Voell/Zach Voell vs. Andrew Lonon/Paul Aluri (neg) Sadly this video cuts off Andrew’s fabulous topicality press at the beginning of the 1NC. You can see the back of my head in this video flowing in Excel, so I am pasting here my flow of that portion just...
