Archive for September, 2007
Links
Every few weeks we are going to post a list of helpful links. These are various other places on the internet that you can go to for more debate and/or nfa-ld debate information. Here is the first list of 10 sites I like to visit: Arizona Debate Institute There are a few helpful lectures under [...]
Tips on Writing an Affirmative – Part 2
I would like to follow up John Boyer’s great post with one that approaches the same problem from a different point of view. From a competitor’s standpoint, how do you find affirmatives that will win? Here are some ideas: 1) Pick the moral high ground – Don’t be afraid to write affirmatives that will cost [...]
Free Books on Horn of Africa
Google Books is amazing – http://books.google.com – and should come in handy this year to get some really great cards for NFA-LD. I’d recommend searching for very specific phrases because the books with limited views will only return a few pages. They do have an option to search only “full preview” books but that is [...]
Introduction to Judging NFA-LD
The purpose of this article is to discuss the development of various paradigms for judging NFA-LD. This is valuable as a competitor as well because the better you understand this new judging pool the more successful you will be. The first observation about judging in NFA-LD is that the rules which govern the way debate [...]
Tips on Writing an Affirmative
As the season starts to get in gear (first tournaments were at Wyoming at Purdue this weekend) some of you are scrambling to get your affirmative ready for competition. Here are a couple of tips to help you finish up. 1. Start with solvency. Always start with an advocate. The hard part is finding an [...]
Welcome to SoCal-LD.net
Welcome and thank you for stopping by SoCal-LD.net. The site is officially one year old and has gone through a lot of changes over the past year. I would especially like to thank all the debaters and coaches who helped with evidence and feedback to make the site more useful to new and returning NFA-LD [...]
Basic Case Structure – Inherency
Since NFA-LD is designed to be a ‘traditional policy’ debate format, I personally think the best case is a ‘traditional’ style policy case that consists of inherency, harms, a plan, and solvency. I thought it might be helpful to explain what each of these are for new NFA-LD students. Generally, if you can have at [...]
