Watch first lecture.
Geared toward beginning debaters, this brand new 3-disc set
replaces the previous 1997 Introduction to Argumentation &
Debate DVD set.
Consisting of completely fresh footage with subtitling, all
filmed in 2012, the new production is designed to be used as a
chapter-by-chapter companion to Christy Shipe's textbook,
An Introduction to Policy Debate.
In this series, Christy provides helpful practical application
of the principles in the textbook along with insightful analysis of
the two complete debate rounds included on Disc 3.
DVD Series Contents
Lecture content corresponds with similarly numbered and titled
textbook chapters.
Disc 1--Lectures and Analysis of Sample Debate
1
- Lecture 1 (8 min): Why Learn Debate?
- Lecture 2 (11 min): Logic
- Lecture 3 (15 min): Evidence
- Lecture 4a (8 min): Stock Issues
- Lecture 4b(30 min): Stock Issues (cont.)
Disc 2--Lectures and Analysis of Sample Debate 1
(cont.)
- Lecture 5 (16 min): Affirmative Case
Construction
- Lecture 6 (11 min): Negative Arguments
- Lecture 7 (24 min): Speaker Responsibilities
- Lecture 8 (17 min): Speech and Delivery
- Lecture 9 (9 min): The Debate Round
Disc 3--Sample debates & commentary
- Debate 1
- Debate 2 (with introduction and conclusion by Christy
Shipe)
Total runtime: Approx. 4.5 hours (270 minutes)
About
the Author/SpeakerAt the urging of her father, Mike Farris, Christy Shipe first
became involved in debate at Cedarville University in 1995. She
competed on the Cedarville debate team for three years and won the
Outstanding Graduate Award in 1998 from the National Educational
Debate Association. She graduated from Cedarville summa cum laude
with a bachelor's degree in political science and received the
Edmund Burke Award for excellence in the field of social science.
While still a student at Cedarville, she helped Home School Legal
Defense Association launch a homeschool debate program and served
as its director for four years, until the birth of her second
child. That program grew into the National Christian Forensics and
Communications Association, where Christy has served on the board
of directors for many years, four of those years as vice
president.
Christy has spoken on debate at seminars around the country
and taught several debate classes. She loves her current job as the
wife of Richard Shipe (associate pastor of Blue Ridge Bible Church)
and homeschooling mom of three daughters and two sons.
