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09
Mar

Knowledge (and how to be a better person)

Whether you want to do well in debating or in life, it helps to know things. There are many articles
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30
Jan

How Not to Judge: Part 1

Over the past six months I've heard regular complaints about the quality of judging on the dutch circuit.
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05
Jan

How to Judge: Unpacking Persuasiveness

How to Judge: Unpacking Persuasiveness By Srdjan Miletic Bad Coaching By far the biggest part of judging a BP debate
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26
Dec

A Problem with the 2015 WUDC Manual

What’s wrong with how we judge rebuttal Overall the 2015 WUDC debating manual is amazing. It’s comprehensible, comprehensive
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26
Dec

How to judge well

This article was originally published on Seventwenty, the dutch debating magazine at: http://www.debatbond.nl/seventwenty/ How to judge
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26
Dec

The blog begins again

Hello Future Reader As of today I've decided to restart and begin seriously working on this blog. From
25
Sep

The Opp case for " heavily restricting the intake of refugees to transfer more funds refugee camps"

Note: The following piece was originally posted as a reply to a debater who asked what the opp case was
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11
Aug

Training Variants 1: Different Types of Debate

For the best part of my first year in debating our clubs' training sessions were little more than lectures
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26
Jul

Rhetorica Newsflash: 24/07/2014

(Below is a copy of a newsflash given to rhetorica members on the 24th of July) Hey debaters. A few
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22
Jan

the water drop,it slides down or pushes up.

Bismark said that all statesmen did was try and catch the coatails of god . When life is ending or one
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