Strategic Debate

by Roy V. Wood and McGraw-Hill Education

Designed for beginning through intermediate debaters, Strategic Debate features a wide range of activities that challenges your students intellectually, analytically, and verbally. These same activities provide students with opportunities to try out the strategies used by championship debaters. Make your students more cogent, competent debaters with easy-to-understand chapters on flowing and structuring the affirmative and negative cases. Strengthen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0078729955
• ISBN13: 9780078729959
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

GREAT book for beginners & those with little experience

If you are in the home school league, or in areas of the country that practice "classic" policy debate, this book is a "must have" for you.This book will teach you debate fundamentals, using examples of evidence and samples of argument structure. It is an excellent resource, one not outdated at all -- and if you do a search on "Strategic Debate" and "Wood," you will find this is still quoted, and used by many people (even in college debate programs) -- including the Judge Certification Program.It is a great place to start -- and one can go anywhere from this book -- even to the NDT.

Great book for beginners with little or no experience

There are many areas of the country which focus on "classic" policy debate. For these debaters -- and their coaches -- Strategic Debate is a valuable resource.In fact, do a "search" on "Strategic Debate", with Wood, and you will find it is STILL quoted and used as a resource by large, well-known programs (even at the college level). It is also on the reading list for the Judge Certification program. The theory is NOT outdated -- it is mostly foundational theory, and has great examples and argument formats which will help those without coaches, or help coaches attempting to learn more about debate.The theory is not high-brow, or overly academic. It presents information in a straightforward manner -- and will help the majority of debaters to learn the basics of the craft.And, if you happen to be in the home-school league, or in certain states like Colorado, parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Virginia -- any number of areas -- which focus on "classic" policy debate, this book is for you!