Speech & Debate
Yay! ARC Takes back extemp! I’m very excited. Here’s the results for ARC: Team Policy 12th – Upham/Upham Lincoln Douglas 6th – Jonathan M 9th speaker – William U 7th speaker – David H 5th speaker – Jonathan M Apologetics SF – David H 8th – William U 2nd – Jonathan M Open Interp 6th [...]
Thanks to everyone who made this weekend’s Advanced Debate Camp a success! At the camp I taught three classes: on evidence, the constitution, and counterplans. Here are the slides (powered by Prezi) for my class “Why Quoting an Expert Isn’t Evidence: Using Science and Stories”: Teaching highlights It’s important to know how to prove something [...]
What have I been up to this summer? What has been so important that I’ve ignored my blog? Well, apart from working at Castle Media Group, attending NCFCA Nationals, and Patriot Academy, I’ve been volunteering for the Austin Rhetoric Club, and I can’t help but give a shameless pitch for the Advanced Debate Camp: Calling [...]
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It’s over. And at long last, I’m getting around to writing about it. What is there to say? It’s difficult to really sum up the past three years I’ve spent in the NCFCA. (Well, the first year is easy to sum up: tears and agony. The end.) God has used a seemingly simple extracurricular activity [...]
Honestly, I still haven’t quite collected all my post-Nationals thoughts, but I’m sure they’ll show up on here at some point. In the meantime, here’s a five-minute video blog/slideshow to recap last week:
