Steve the Sophist

A professor of rhetoric shares his views and opinions on debate, argumentation, rhetoric.

Sophistic Debate: Topic Archive

  • 2012: Summer of Debating

  • Karl Popper Debate Championship 2012

  • Infrequently Asked Questions

  • 99 Problems, and keep them coming

  • I was wrong about being wrong about debate videos

  • I was wrong about debate videos

  • ECA: Two Thoughts from today’s conference

  • Eastern Communication Association Conference in Boston

  • A debate about poverty, excess and obligation

  • Destination Debating

  • Interview with St. John’s Debate Director Steve Llano

  • Forays Into Debate

  • Defending Confusion and Uncertainty in Debates

  • Teaching Debate From The Wrong Book

  • The Irish Times Debate in New York

  • Worlds Debate, Instant Replay, Tech Fantasies

  • Teaching via Skype: WUDC Basics

  • What’s Left Out?

  • On Visiting the Local High School League

  • Championship Debates from the Northeastern US

  • The NEUDC Break

  • West Conn Video #1

  • The Lost Debate Pedagogy

  • The Threat of Debating

  • The Weeekend, Reflection

  • Cornell IV Videos

  • Romancing the Novice

  • Old School

  • The Last Adelphi Report #4

  • Adelphi Brown & Gold Debates Video update #3

  • LIVE it’s Adelphi Round 2

  • Live from Adelphi Brown & Gold Debates

  • Teaching Keeps You Honest

  • Stretching the Debate Club Model: Student Lectures

  • Information Slips

  • Judge Not!

  • University of Vermont Huber Debate Videos

  • University of Vermont Final Round Video

  • UK Tour Workshop

  • Academic Debate? Let’s hope not.

  • Debate Videos: A Question of “Access”

  • Middle School Debate: Addressing Public Audiences

  • American Debate Sediment 3: Argument “theory”

  • American Debate Sediment 2: Punitive Judging

  • Tournaments are it?

  • American Debate Sediment 1: Student Judging

  • On Recording and Posting as Many Debates as we can

  • Public Debate: Arab Spring

  • A Debate Coaching Prime Directive

  • Storefront Debate

  • How Do You Do That?

  • The _______ Society

  • A Break

  • There’s Nothing Wrong With Obama

  • The NCA Alta Argumentation Conference, day 1

  • Debate Institute; Debate Camp

  • The Approach of Euros

  • South African Nationals

  • The Rhetorical Placing of the Casey Anthony Trial

  • The Hazards of Video

  • What about Straw Dogs?

  • Cable TV

  • Practice Writing

  • Darwin’s Library

  • Hart Crane: The Book Is Better

  • Technology’s Dramatic Interlude

  • Academic Service-Learning Workshop, Part 1

  • Opportunity, to teach

  • Style and Performance and Argument

  • Antidote to e-book guilt

  • New CA/Tab Website for American Debate

  • Freedom!

  • E-reader Guilt

  • The New York Public Library vs. Big Media

  • What Does Debate Teach?

  • That Terrible Republican Debate

  • Visual Arguments in the Wild

  • Debaters and the Library

  • First Day of Summer

  • Anxiously Awaiting Summer

  • USU Semifinals

  • USU Quarterfinal Round

  • USU Octofinal

  • USU Breaking Teams

  • USU Round 6

  • USU Round 5

  • USU Round 4

  • USU Round 3

  • USU Day 2

  • USU Round 2

  • USU VT Round 1

  • USU in Burlington VT

  • Triangle Shirtwaste Fire Debate

  • Colgate IV Semifinal

  • Colgate IV Semifinal

  • Colgate IV Round 6

  • Colgate IV Round 5

  • Colgate IV Round 4

  • Colgate IV Round 3

  • Colgate IV Round 2

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