Ebook: The code of the debater: introduction to policy debating

Appendixes: 1. Videos and web sites -- Sample flowsheet -- Sample brief.;pt. I: Initiation -- 1. Policy debate -- The policy debate experience -- The debate tournament -- The affirmative stock issues: upholding the resolution -- The negative stock issues: refuting the resolution or case -- The code of the debater.;pt. IV: Endless journey -- 19. The better debater? -- The "not better" debater -- 20. How the decision gets made -- Tuna's equation -- Aunt Bluebell's scales -- 21. Cross-application of ideas -- 22. Evolving arguments : strategic handling of disadvantages.;pt. III: Debaters have skills -- 9. Speaking -- Goals -- The dynamic speaker -- Applying dynamism factors to delivery -- The physical elements of speech -- Caring for your speech system -- Giving a good first impression -- Speaking drills -- 10. Flowing -- The basics -- Materials -- Organizing the flowsheets -- Using symbolic vocabulary -- Flowing speech by speech -- Helpful tips for flowing -- 11. Organizing arguments -- Learn to build an outline -- Structure beyond the outline -- Building a single argument -- Signposting -- Organizing your refutation -- 12. Preparing as a team -- Partnerships -- How to prepare on the affirmative -- How to prepare on the negative -- 13. Cross-examination -- Objectives of cross-examination -- Guidelines for asking questions -- Guidelines for answering questions -- Tactics for specific cross-examination situations -- 14. Research -- The importance of research -- A debate research plan -- Library resources -- 15. Evidence -- Creating evidence cards -- Simple guidelines for evidence citation -- Evaluating evidence -- Evidence drills -- 16. Briefing -- Titles and tagging of briefs -- Writing briefs and taglines -- Format of brief pages -- Taping briefs -- Strategic considerations -- Analytical arguments -- Analysis drills -- 17. Rebuttals -- 18. Adapting to judges and audiences -- Collecting and using information on the judge -- Types of judges -- Adapting to specific judge types.;pt. II: Basic knowledge -- 2. The affirmative case -- Affirmative advantages -- Selecting an affirmative case -- Preparing an affirmative case -- Constructing your affirmative case -- Briefing / Frontlines -- 3. The negative attacks the affirmative case -- General considerations -- Organizational guidelines for attacking the case -- Specific techniques for attacking the affirmative case -- Utilizing challenges -- Indicting affirmative evidence -- Strategic willingness to concede portions of case -- Techniques for dealing with stock issues -- Clashing with affirmative inherency -- Clashing with affirmative solvency -- 4. The disadvantage -- Components -- Types of disadvantage scenarios -- Threshhold scenario -- Linear scenario -- Structure of a sample disadvantage argument -- Other concepts you might find useful -- Time frame -- Preemptions -- Advice to affirmatives: how to answer a disadvantage -- Winning disadvantages on the negative -- Kicking out of disadvantages -- 5. The counterplan -- Criteria -- Answering counterplans -- 6. The process of critique -- Why are critiques valuable? -- Types of critiques -- Answering critiques -- 7. The topicality argument -- Arguing about definitions -- Winning with topicality -- Making a topicality argument -- Reasons to prefer the negative definition(s) -- Topicality can help with other arguments -- Answering topicality -- Affirmative topicality tips -- Common responses to topicality arguments -- Reasons why topicality is not a voting issue -- 8. Debate steps -- First affirmative constructive (1AC) -- First negative constructive (1NC) -- Second affirmative constructive (2AC) -- Second negative constructive (2NC) -- First negative rebuttal (1NR) -- First affirmative rebuttal (1AR) -- Second negative rebuttal (2NR) -- Second affirmative rebuttal (2AR) -- Timeline for a policy debate.