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The Five Laws of Impactful Briefing
At its core, a brief is a collection of arguments with evidence. At a more advanced level, it...
What is agriculture policy?
U.S. agricultural policy—often simply called farm policy—generally follows a 5-year legislative cycle that produces a wide-ranging “Farm Bill.”...
The role and limitations of stock issues - by Victor Joecks
The first insight is that every Team Policy debate round contains two separate debates. The first is on whether...
How to Argue Significance Effectively - Mark Roose
In my first three years of debate, I thought significance was a useless stock issue. I went so...
Why Good Cases Lose in Elimination Rounds - Mark Roose
What is the difference between Affirmative cases that win locally and those that win NITOC? The real question...
The Notorious Gamble, Counterplans Part 1, Topicality
In this first part of a long series on counterplans, Brad Tomasovic and Charlie Said go over implementing...
You Don't Have Time
I get it, highschool is busy. It certainly would be ideal to brief every single affirmative yourself, taking...
Stop Using Time-Wasters
You’ve been preparing and strategizing against this case for hours upon hours….Maybe it’s dredging, maybe it’s some other...
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