Defends hypothesis testing in academic debate. (PD)

Presents a rationale for incorporating cross examination as a basic goal of teaching argument and discusses a system for generating cross examination questions and methods for practicing the development of such questions. (MH)

Analyzed the consistency of debate judges' philosophy and ballot statements. Found that their debating philosophies accurately reflect the criteria they use to decide debates. (PD)

This ERIC information analysis paper provides high school debaters and their teachers with guidelines for research on the debate resolutions selected by the National University Extension Association's Committee on Discussion and Debate. Focusing on the problem of health care of U.S. citizens, the material included in this paper is divided into…

Intended as a resource for students in their study of the issues and arguments pertinent to the 1979-80 National High School Debate Resolution, "What should be the future direction of the foreign policy of the United States?," this publication is organized into five units. The units are: definitions, including the problem area and the…

Intended for use by instructors of upper division speech courses, this paper describes a questioning and answering technique for teaching argumentation. The first section of the paper discusses the concept of argumentative exchange, which is defined as an episode between two or more individuals wherein one or more feel that differences of belief…

Intended for use by high school debaters and their teachers, this book provides guidelines for research on the debate topic for the 1978-1979 school year: "What should be the energy policy of the United States?" The first section is designed to broaden the student's comprehension of the debating process by focusing on the meaning of the…