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Transitioning from Public Forum to APDA
Join Mac Hays and Brooke Blanton for advice on how to navigate from public forum debate to APDA! Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/PCyQlgHwYfk
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Transitioning from APDA to BP
By Dennis Su British Parliamentary (BP) is the format of debate that the vast majority of universities in the world compete in. Many APDA debaters might understandably have some apprehensions…
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NMC Speaker Series: Member of the Opposition
The NMC is excited to announce its first ever lecture anthology. We have invited several distinguished APDA alumni as well as current seniors to give four lectures on APDA speaker…
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NMC Speaker Series: Member of Government
The NMC is excited to announce its first ever lecture anthology. We have invited several distinguished APDA alumni as well as current seniors to give four lectures on APDA speaker…
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NMC Speaker Series: Prime Minister
The NMC is excited to announce its first ever lecture anthology. We have invited several distinguished APDA alumni as well as current seniors to give four lectures on APDA speaker…
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On Victory by Mac Hays
By Mac Hays Brown '24 In the first of a planned series of lectures, I aim to explain some of my views on the technical concepts of win conditions in…
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Transitioning from High School Debate to APDA
By Parker Kelly, George Washington University, ’20 I went to high school in Houston, Texas and did 1 year of PF and 2 years of LD on the local and…
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How to Handle Motions Preparation
By Eric Tannenbaum, The College of New Jersey ’18 Note: APDA has several motions tournaments throughout the year, but due to their relative infrequency compared to case tournaments it can difficult…
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How and When to Countercase
By Miriam Pierson, Swarthmore College ’18 Note: If you want to get a general sense of what a countercase can look like, here’s a link to a video where the opposition…
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Case Writing Basics
By Anika Matin, The George Washington University '18 Starting out on APDA, you will come to the realization that you will be the government team about half the time, and…