Recent Exercises

  • Debate as the Pedagogy of Invention

    Debate pedagogy’s primary contribution to the study of rhetoric and argumentation is in the realm of invention – how do we come up with and produce argumentation that…

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  • Debate Format Camp vs. Debate Camp

    Debate camp in the United States was a large mainstay for many years. It still continues, mostly in edited form, across the country. The major reason that debate…

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  • ISSA 2014 Final Thoughts

    The conference ended yesterday, and I believe it lives up to all of the hype. The papers were excellent, and so were the questions in the discussions. Serious…

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  • Day 1 Wrap Up at ISSA 2014

    Here are some of my thoughts after day 1: Frans van Eemeren presented the first of three keynotes, where he divided argument studies into three sections  in order…

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  • Abandoned Blog?

    Is this blog abandoned? No way! Just taking a bit of a long break from it after a hectic end of the spring semester. Now that summer is…

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  • Policy Debate and Race: No Defense

    Policy debate’s focus on race has attracted some media attention. The Atlantic ran an article that wondered if the way that winning debaters were interrogating the question of…

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