The SNFI is proud to offer a policy debate program specifically for beginners! This lab will teach students the core principles of policy debate, provide a first in-depth glimpse into the evidence production process all digital , and instill the love for policy debate that all of our staff shares. The core two-week program is designed to introduce major concepts while fitting into the tightest of summer schedules while the extended week provides students several additional practice debates and a mini-end of camp tournament.
We strongly encourage students who plan on debating during the school year to sign up for all three weeks as it guarantees them substantial practice time. Admission to this lab is limited by our ability to staff it with quality educators with experience teaching beginning debaters. If the lab fills before we can find an additional instructor, some applications may not be accepted. Please apply early! The negative also has the option to present disadvantages to the policy the policy may solve the problem, but it will create new problems.
Other ways do exist for structuring an affirmative case or negative strategy, but in the end the debate should focus on whether or not a particular policy is an appropriate course of action. Stock Issues Often, judges view the round in terms of stock issues, or major questions that both teams need to address.
They are:. Disadvantages Sometimes an affirmative plan can solve for all five of the stock issues and still be a bad idea. For example, an affirmative plan to dissolve the entire U. However, there are still extremely good reasons not to vote for such a plan: prisoners might run rampant on the streets; people would be less afraid to commit crimes since they would know that there were no prisons to punish them for breaking the law; lots of prison staff would be out of employment, and so forth.
A disadvantage is a somewhat more structured way of arguing that the negative consequences of a plan provide a reason not to vote for it. Disadvantages have several important parts:. Summer debate camps have started providing their camp files for free. These files can serve as an excellent building block for the season. These files can also be very useful for student congress competitors. One place to turn for back files is Planet Debate as described a little below.
You can also find a large but less user friendly list here. Planet Debate — Planet Debate is a comprehensive debate website. It includes both free and pay resources. When using the links keep in mind that free files are combined with pay files. If you want only free files make sure that evidence link has FREE listed next to it. Military Topic Files — Below you will find links to free files for the military topic. In the world DEBATE-Kansas City here half of our student congress docket relates to the policy debate topic, these are useful for congress and obviously policy debate.
We will begin this section with a few basic tips for doing Internet research, begging with the search terms to use. Research with Google — Google is generally considered the best search engine around. The search tips above directly apply for using Google. Research with Google News — If you are looking for the most recent information on a topic then Google News is for you.
Research with Think Tanks — The link above directs you to University of Michigan listing of think tanks. Though some people question the objectivity of many Think Tanks, the evidence they produce can be quite useful in speech and debate. Military Topic Master Links — This is a link to more links.
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