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A Change In Competition: Assessing The Nfa-Ld Community And Its Views On Topical Counterplans, Matthew Whitman May 2012

A Change In Competition: Assessing The Nfa-Ld Community And Its Views On Topical Counterplans, Matthew Whitman

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Intercollegiate academic debate allows students to participate in various contests and competitions to demonstrate expertise in argumentation and public speaking (Freeley & Steinberg 2009). The National Forensic Association's Lincoln-Douglas (NFA-LD) debate is a two-person style of policy-based debate, and it borrows much of its argumentative structure from other team-based debate organizations (Freeley & Steinberg, 2009). Yet it also prohibits other theoretical arguments from being used through its codified rules. This project seeks to examine current NFA-LD community attitudes towards the prohibition of topical counterplans, a theoretical negative argument, in the event.


Ua12/2/22 Moot Congress, Wku Archives Jan 2011

Ua12/2/22 Moot Congress, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records regarding the Moot Congress and Commonwealth created by the Kit Kat Club in order to practice debate and learn about government.


Ua1b3/3 Meeting Minutes, Wku Athletic Committee Mar 1955

Ua1b3/3 Meeting Minutes, Wku Athletic Committee

WKU Archives Records

Meeting minutes, reports and correspondence for the March 22, 1955 athletic committee meeting. Includes proposal for giving awards to the debating team, W Club eligibility rules, list of award winners.


Ua97/6 Robinson Declamation Contest, Ogden College Jun 1916

Ua97/6 Robinson Declamation Contest, Ogden College

WKU Archives Records

Program for the Robinson Declamation Contest featuring Earl Rabold, Arthur Daughtry, Lucien Graham, Charles Cristal, Rodes Myers, Conley Larmon and Sam Alexander.