EP 15
Athens, GA
Male, 54
I have been the director of the Georgia Debate Union for the last twenty-five years. Our program works with intercollegiate debaters who engage in public policy debate (National Debate Tournament style debate). Our coaches collaborate with undergraduate debaters on developing argument strategies for the annual national topic, direct research on that topic, facilitating discussions related to theories of debate, and listen to practice debates and speeches.
Unskilled students can be taught to be good or very good. My own feeling is that personal drive and an innate sense are elements needed to be great.
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Depends on the person. The 1st speaker at the 2012 NDT was a woman.
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Intercolleiate policy debate is a high speech data driven activity. Content usually trumps presuasive considerations. In a traditonal public audience debate -- pitch would play an inportant role in determining outcome.
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