Learning cross-examination debate: the boot camp of speech events

Imagine thinking that we could teach a toddler to learn to walk and run wind sprints simultaneously. When I coach cross-examination debate to freshmen, I often feel like this is what I am trying to accomplish with fourteen-year-old freshmen. Bless them big. For years, parents would tell me that I should talk to their child about being in debate because that “smartmo...

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