Breaking Down Barriers:
Ask Jim about Debate

Below are links to answers to questions about debate.
You can submit questions too, just email Jim at
hansonjb@whitman.edu

1AR: How To Do It Well

Affirmative Cases: Paragraph Plans--where are the planks?

Affirmative Cases: Setting Up Contentions

Affirmative Cases: Should I use definitions in the 1AC to preempt topicality?

Affirmative Cases: Should Squads Run Just One Case?

Affirmative Cases: Tips

Balance: How do I keep up with debate and my regular life?

Beating Independent Voters

Coaching: Avoiding Burnout

Coaching: Competing Without A Coach

Coaching: How can I raise funds for my debate program?

Coaching: How To Teach Beginners

College vs HS Debate: What is the difference?

Counterplan: Can I ban/deconstruct all government and say it is competitive with the plan?

Counterplans: Responding To Topical Counterplans

Counterplans: What Is A Permutation

Counterplans: Why Are Exclusionary Counterplans Justified?

Counterplans: Writing one

Critiques: Attacking Kritiks/Critiques

Critiques: Can An Advantage Or Disadvantage Outweigh A Critique?

Critiques: Do Critiques Need Evidence?

Critiques: Foucault and the Education Topic

Critiques: Making Kritiks/Critiques

Critiques: How to Prepare One

Critiques: The Difference Between Kritiks and Critiques

Critiques: What Is The Heidegger Critique?

Critiques: Why Are They Good Arguments?

Derrida: What Is Deference?

Disadvantages: How Does Inductive Logic Relate To DAs?

Disadvantages: Using Internal Links

Disadvantages: Writing one

Evidence: What Is Good Evidence

Fair Warning: What Is Fair Warning?

Fiat Power on the Negative

Fiat Power on theAffirmative

Filing: How Should Evidence Be Filed?

Frontlines: How To Prepare Frontlines

Hasty Generalization Arguments

Incrementalism: How Do You Argue It?

Inherency: Arguing it

Inherency: What is it?

Instrinsicness: Responses To Intrinsic Arguments

Instrinsicness: What Is An Intrinsicness Response

Judges: Adjusting To A "Lay" Judge

Justification: Writing Justification Arguments

Kicking Out Of A Disadvantage

Kicking Out Of Plan Spikes

Negative Strategies: When Should I Run A D/A or Counterplan?

Negative Strategies: Why do teams ignore case?

New 2N Arguments: Are they legitimate?

New Arguments Made In the 2NC

Normativity: Arguing it

Partners: Working With A Less Experienced Partner

Plans: Including Planks In Plan

Plans: What Is A Plan Spike?

PMN: What is it?

Rebuttals: Drills for improving them

Rebuttals: How do we make our last rebuttals powerfully persuasive?

Significance: Is it a Voting Issue?

Speaking: Eliminating "Ums" And "Ahs"

Speaking: How To Improve Debate Speaking

Speaking: Is Speed Good?

Speaking: Why Is Debate So Fast?

Squirrel Cases: How To Beat Them

Stock Issues: What are they?

Theory Evidence: Good Sources For Theory Evidence

Topicality: Arguing Extra-Topicality

Topicality: How Do I Respond To Topicality?

Topicality: How To Argue Effects-Topicality

Topicality: How To Make A Topicality Argument

Topicality: Preparing Standards

Topicality: What is an "increase"?

Topicality: What Is Topicality?

Tournaments: Which ones should I go to?

Turns: How To Argue Them