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Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture » Read Now
by Gary Alan Fine. 301 pgs.

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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with...
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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship.Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics. Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.
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Pros and Cons: A Debater's Handbook » Read Now
by Trevor Sather. 265 pgs.

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The latest edition of this popular guide for debaters has been thoroughly updated and includes a variety of brandnew material tailored for forensic leaguers at all levels
Pros and Cons provides material for debates on a wide range of questions: arguments for and against appear in adjacent columns...
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The latest edition of this popular guide for debaters has been thoroughly updated and includes a variety of brandnew material tailored for forensic leaguers at all levels
Pros and Cons provides material for debates on a wide range of questions: arguments for and against appear in adjacent columns, numbered point by point, so that each "Pro" corresponds with the "Con" of the same number. From homosexual priests to cameras in the courtroom, Pros and Cons covers the hottest new debating topics, including: Genetic engineering, test-tube babies, Internet censorship, euthanasia, "political correctness" and much more.
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Debate and Critical Analysis: The Harmony of Conflict » Read Now
by Robert James Branham. 244 pgs.

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A Research-Based Justification for Debate across the Curriculum, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Joe Bellon. 15 pgs.

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Pedagogical Possibilities for Argumentative Agency in Academic Debate, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Gordon R. Mitchell. 20 pgs.

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High School Student Perceptions of the Efficacy of Debate Participation, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Robert S. Littlefield. 15 pgs.

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University Student Perceptions of the Efficacy of Debate Participation: An Empirical Investigation, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Brian R. McGee, David E. Williams, David S. Worth. 12 pgs.

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Beyond Tabula Rasa, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Aaron Bunch. 8 pgs.

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Ten Years of Demographics: Who Debates in America, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Beth Gardner, Pamela L. Stepp. 14 pgs.

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Can We Make Intercollegiate Debate More Diverse?, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Pamela Stepp. 16 pgs.

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Extending the Diversity Agenda in Forensics: Invisible Disabilities and Beyond, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Cynthia K. Matthews, Michael W. Shelton. 10 pgs.

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An Analysis of Differences in Success Rates of Male and Female Debaters, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Jon Bruschke, Ann Johnson. 12 pgs.

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Argument, Ideology, and Databases: On the Corporatization of Academic Debate, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Robert E. Tucker. 11 pgs.

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Databases in the Marketplace of Academic Debate: A Response to Tucker, in Argumentation and Advocacy » Read Now
by Scott Harris. 5 pgs.

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Teaching Communication: Theory, Research, and Methods (Chap. 32 "Directing Debate and Forensics") » Read Now
by John A. Daly, Gustav W. Friedrich, Anita L. Vangelisti. 570 pgs.

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