Reddit reviews Competitive Debate: The Official Guide

... and here we go again: "insufferably stupid"
How sad is that?
Get yourself some education:

http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Debate-Ph-D-Richard-Edwards/dp/1592576931/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278811689&sr=8-1

Might help in your case...

Here is the mobile version of your link

This is a pretty good book, even if a little dated. It's cheap, and it covers all three debate events. I am assuming your team is mostly novices with only a few senior debaters, if any. I would come up with a list of potential arguments under a topic and assign those out to the teams to research for briefs/blocks depending on the event. For you specifically, I'd get with a couple of the experienced debaters and write cases for the novices. Once the team is established, they'll do that on their own. But right now you need to get them up and running and if you keep sending them into rounds to get their teeth kicked in because they are unprepared, they may lose interest and quit. You can probably find the published briefs on r/DebateTrade - some of them are very well done. They can give you a good idea of what most teams will argue, but good teams do their own research.

However you do it, you can upload those to google drive or somewhere for a shared file for the team. Finally, you need to learn how to use verbatim.

Good luck!

>Linking to relevant books is much more helpful than willful ignorance.

So if I link to a bunch of books peripherally related to a topic at hand, and you refuse to read them, does that make you willfully ignorant?

>You asked the question, and if you are actually interested in hearing thoughtful responses to it, you might want to consider picking up a book about it.

His books do not begin to answer the question of the OP.

>If you've been on reddit for any amount of time you surely know that it's a terrible forum for meaningful debate.


Then, by your own admission, you are here for meaningless debate.

>The issues you raised cannot be settled by a few short comments.

I disagree.

Read the following books about debate before you respond. Otherwise, I will have to assume you are willfully ignorant.

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Debating-Leverett-Samuel-Lyon/dp/B003VQRXDC/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376830361&sr=1-2&keywords=debate

http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Debate-Ph-D-Richard-Edwards/dp/1592576931/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376830385&sr=1-3&keywords=debate

http://www.amazon.com/Rulebook-Arguments-Anthony-Weston/dp/0872209547/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376830385&sr=1-4&keywords=debate

There's also this book, [Competitive Debate: The Official Guide] (https://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Debate-Official-Richard-Edwards/dp/1592576931/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=411mf6LoMoL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=J2TA28F2NTE1K8S71R60]. I got this a while ago and it covers all of the events, as well as general guides. But like u/subsidiescurecancer said, it's a little outdated and doesn't go so in-depth.