Abby

1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: Speed 2) Recommended Drills: Speed 3) 2AC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: ?? 4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: She, too, uses evidence as a crutch. On dedev, all that she did was read cards. She needs to learn to get off of them. I recommend giving practice 2NCs with either no cards, or a cap on the number of cards she can read. 5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2NC/2NR: 2NC: Odd block division, she took dedev, elections, and a single case flow. I would recommend case and one disad, or case and the CP. On dedev, rather than reading cards, actually answer the aff’s arguments as well. Don’t need to read more warming impacts if the aff has already read them. Make impact framing arguments using 1NC evidence, so the aff doesn’t get to answer them. On the disad have an impact overview, do better evidence comparison on the link debate. 2NR: Go for one argument, either cap or dedev, not both. Do much more impact work on warming – explain why it’s the only existential risk, and why existential risks are the only thing that matters. Go for the argument that we are past the tipping point for warming solvency, and explain how dedev solves warming. 5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: Above
 * __Practice Debate #10 - Neg vs. James/Andrew - 07/27/2012 - Comments by Rahim__**

1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: --Be louder/sound more excited—good clarity though—keep this up even as you get faster --smoother transitions ---need to ask fewer clarification questions in cx 2) Recommended Drills: --practice emphasizing words more, speaking faster <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3) Assess use of evidence in rebuttals: quantity, quality, and comparison: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">--you need to get to know your aff better—practice reading the 1ac a lot so your 1ars are easier on case <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">--instead of broadly asserting that their ev on the libertarianism k is bad, tell me which evidence and what itt says <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4) Strategic Choice and Execution of 1AR: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">make sure you spend less time on case—if they don’t really go to a flow you don’t need to re-explain all of your arguments—just make sure you answer theirs and you move on—it’s a time pressured speech so you cant waste any of it <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">use embedded clash for the 1ar where you try lining up arguments more implicitly
 * __Practice Debate #9 - Aff vs. Niti/Jennifer -07/26/2012 - Comments by Nate__ **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2NC <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Cx of the 1AC: work on getting through your questions as efficiently as possible – spent 1:30 on the Thayer card discussion <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Should start CP with brief overview explaining what it does <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Careful on line by line – skipped some arguments in the middle – want to make sure you’re very explicit about which 2ac argument you’re answering, using your 1NC cards, and answering the warrants of their evidence <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Work on efficiency for explaining case arguments <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- More evidence for case extensions <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2NR <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Must kick out of the politics disad if not going for it <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Want to put your offense before theirs <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Want to do your impact overview on the disad – contrast to theirs not just explain the link to it <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- For CP Solvency debate go through the warrants of different cards <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">- Don’t want to go for offense against case with the CP – it’s not a net benefit so doesn’t get you very far
 * __Practice Debate #8 - Neg vs. Ashwin - 07/25/2012 - Comments by Peyton__ **

--Abby's primary individual goal isolated in lab for when she was negative was to be much tighter on the line-by-line. The lab goal for this debate was good CX skills. --I stopped Abby after the first CX question - she asked "what jobs do you create?". I wanted her to make it more of an argument with context - set up the question a bit more, i.e. "You are not building new airports. You are not hiring new air traffic controllers. What type of jobs do you create?" --Remember to start your CX immediately...even when you are standing up and setting your timer. Start your question then. --We did a nice job with follow-ups and probes - taking Andrew's answers and making them into more in-depth questions. --We have some smart arguments to extend on case in the 2NC - make sure to do this in 1NC order. --I am glad we are reading new cards in a few places to extend the case debate. --I would like to see you reference a few more 1NC case cards by cite when you are extending them (i.e. the Drones turn). --I was confused by what we did at the end of case. We were making some smart args about the economy but we had already finished the econ flow. --I stopped and restarted Abby on the K flow when she started the K flow with just reading cards and not doing the line-by-line. She started this but she is now just reading lots of cards and not applying them to any 2AC argument. --REDO: I would like for you to redo the 2NC. I want us to focus on extending 1NC case arguments by cite and doing it properly on each flow (some of the arguments at the bottom of the case debate needed to be put on different flows). I want an overview on the K. I want each argument on the K flow in the 2AC to be signposted and answered in order. --You did a good job with "time of possession" when being CXed. --In a typical round, don't announce before your speech that your speech will be "disorganized". You immediately lost all ethos in regards to whether you will win the debate. I know tech problems happen but it does not help your cause to announce that you are getting ready to give a speech that will lack organization. :) --You need to kick out of the CP and the Elections DA. Go to those flows first and kick out of them. --After kicking out of Elections and the CP, I would like to hear an overview as to why you win the debate. I am glad that we made some choices in the 2NR (not going for everything). --I know it is difficult but you need to prep more of your speech. Your partner should not write out the part of the speech on the position that you are going for...especially because this is what you went for in the 2NC. --Make sure to do more explanation of the K...state what your alt is. --You need to line-by-line the K. You need to directly refute the 1AR arguments. --Good to extend the dropped framework discussion.
 * __Practice Debate #6 - Neg vs. James/Andrew - 07/23/2012 - Comments by Tara__ **


 * __Practice Debate #5 - Aff vs. Noah/Avi - 07/21/2012 - Comments by Linda__**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Good clarity, but work on volume and emphasis.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2) Recommended Drills: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Practice speaking with a stronger voice.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3) Assess use of evidence in rebuttals: quantity, quality, and comparison: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">You should always time the 1AC beforehand to make sure you don’t run out of time or don’t fill time – good call reading more cards because you had extra time.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4) Strategic Choice and Execution of 1AR: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Make sure to put your offense (in this situation, your case) on top.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Time allocation – you spent way too much time on the spending disadvantage, and did not get to the elections disadvantage without much time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Spending DA
 * o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Don’t spend so much time on the contradiction argument – you have to do something with it. Either concede their argument that economic decline doesn’t cause war (it takes out your advantage but takes our their disadvantage), or extend your impacts and keep debating.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Give your rebuttal with the above suggestions.

--Abby was redoing a 1AR - the judge told her that there was a 1AR extension that took out her economy advantage (a 2aC answer on spending) - the 1AR did not extend that. She developed more time to Privatization CP and Elections. --I think it was fine to kick an advantage if you feel that you could win the round without that advantage. You never want to kick an advantage just because it is the "easy way out". It should be the best strategic option. --I think it is good to talk about the hegemony advantage. Did the Negative have any arguments on this advantage? If so, we need to do better line-by-line. If not, we need to talk more about the story of the advantage. You don't need to extend every card independently. --Good to talk about qualifications of your authors (Eno Center) - that was very well-developed and articulated. --For every future 1AR, I want you to card the 1AR in two places - pick two places in the round that will be strategic places in the last two debates and read a card in each spot. --Are we going in order of 2AC arguments? On Elections, you answered impacts first - was that high up in the 2AC order?
 * __Rebuttal Redo from Practice Debate #5 - 1AR - 07/23/2012 - Comments by Tara__ **


 * __ Practice Debate #3 __**

1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: Clarity is good, speed could be better. You should vary your tone between tags and card texts to help the judge distinguish them.  2) Recommended Drills: Practice reading cards for 10 min+ to improve speed and endurance. 3) 2NC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: Case is good for the most part – technical coverage on elections needs to improve. You concede key 2AC arguments – most importantly “no impact to warming.” Careful flowing and line-by-line would solve this problem.  4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: Swap out some of the evidence on case for extension and analysis of 1nc cards – reading lots of new cards and not extending the old ones defeats the purpose of 1nc case arguments. 5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2NR: The phrase “necessary but not sufficient” is a good way to characterize the style of solvency argument you’re advancing – HSR may be key to solve the economy but still not enough on its own.  Put your offense on top – it was unclear for much of the speech how you intended to win, since you started with case defense and only reached the elections disad later.  You should go for federalism – dropped wwarming defense pretty much means elections is no longer viable.  5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: Go for federalism, with an impact overview on top explaining how it outweighs the case. Extend some of the dropped warrants from the 2nc economy debate, in addition to the solvency arg discussed above. Thoughts about prep time use: Block division should be decided either immediately before or immediately after 2AC cross-x – this isn’t something you should still be discussing minutes into 2NC prep. The fact that the entire block was in one doc makes me suspect one of you prepped everything – this is inefficient and a waste of the 1NR’s free 11 minutes of prep. The 1A can use 2NC prep to prepare stuff you’re likely to need for the 1AR – in this debate this could include ensuring you know your specific fed key warrants and/or pulling additional elections uq cards. When it is your turn to speak you need to be ready – 2 specific situations – 1. You must know your order __ before __ you stand up to give your speech – fumbling through your flows right before the speech looks unprofessional and is unlikely to result in a strategic order. 2. You should be prepared to start cx almost immediately after the constructive ends – this means at a minimum you have a timer and some questions prepared – some delay is OK but a long delay looks bad and makes it hard to build any momentum in CX.
 * __Practice Debate #2 - Neg. vs. Ari/Sehee - 07/13/2012 - Comments by Connor__ **
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 * __Practice Debate #1 Comments__**

--Students were asked to create a five minute Negative block speech to extend an Obama Good Elections DA. Students were given the 1NC shell and a file of potential cards they could use for their extensions. They used their own 2ACs from the night before as the 2AC to answer when they gave the extension speech. --Good comparison—uniqueness --HSR v. Obama comparison—you just jumped around--Public Opinion poll is randomly stuck in there--Went from Uniqueness, to Internal Link to Link really randomly. --Fiat probs means they get this time --The Econ arg you want to do on the case --Connect more with the judge --PC key card isn’t really needed for an eletions DA… --Prolif is a sort of questionable thing to read new in the 2nc—really easy to impact turn—especially without a great defense of it --CTBT similarly…that’s the same impact perhaps? --1:10 left—you want to do a bunch of stuff with this.
 * __Elections Negative Block Extension Speech - 07/10/2012 - Comments by Nate__ **

--You positioned yourself very well in the sense that the laptop did not cover your face. --I am glad that you included analyticals, but they were very lengthy and I don't think you are getting much traction (#1) --Even though you are a 1AR, we need to work on better signposting. As you were speaking, I felt that I could flow your speech in paragraph or essay form. You want each argument, both cards and analyticals, to be distinct arguments - visualize each argument in their own separate file folder. They should be numbered separately. --Good volume and clarity. I would like to see us work on our speed a little. --You chose correct cards to effectively answer the DA (i.e. you did not include any of the "klunkers").
 * __Elections DA 2AC Activity - 07/09/2012 - Comments by Tara__ **
 * -- ** Students were given a 1NC Obama Good Elections DA shell and a file of potential cards they could choose from to create a 3 minute 2AC to the DA.