How to Give an Effective 2ar

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How to Give an Effective 2ar
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1. Think About the Big Picture

• Remember focus on offense defend your house
• Isolate 1 or 2 Impacts
• Decide on impacts based on negative strategy
  know what level of your argument you must win to
  access your impacts
• Know way you may frame the debate depending on
  2nr strategy before the 1ar speaks
• Dont immediately start writing your speech when
  2nr ends conceptualize the debate
• However, during the 2nrs prep time, you can
  start writing your overview based on what you
  think they are going for

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2. Strategy to Ordering Your Flows

• Should have a strategy for ordering your flows
  for every speech
• Keep in mind 2ar tells a storydont let the
  judge write his or her own story
• Dont put your best argument or the negs best
  argument on the bottom when possible
• Almost never want to put your entire case at the
  bottom
• Almost never put the counterplan on the bottom

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3. Overviews Your overview

• Sometimes a general overview, sometimes done on a
  specific argument
• Overview should not be a preview of what we are
  to hear - Instead, use it to frame the
  debate/start impact comparisons
• Should be less than a minute long, aim for 30-45
  seconds
• Dont use the exact same overview for every
  debate however, keep them and re-use partsyou
  can even write parts ahead of time for different
  scenarios
• Usually start with why you win it (recognizing
  negatives best chance of winning)
• NO UNDERVIEWS ALLOWED IN POLICY DEBATE

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Responding to the 2nr Overview

• Dont give your overview and then address
  everything in the 2nr overview
• Your impact analysis should take in to account
  2nr impact assessment
• Only answer 2nr if arguments that you wont
  answer in your overview or on the line

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Scenario 1 - Overview

• The negative goes for the states CP and the
  federalism disad, with an Iraq instability/Middle
  East wars going nuclear impact. They also kick
  out of their topicality violation and spending
  tradeoff. There are 3 defensive on poverty and 3
  defensive arguments on ethno-religious conflicts.
  Going in to your 2ar, you want to win that the
  counterplan does not solve the ethno-religious
  conflicts advantage and that outweighs. You also
  think it would help to win that federalism is not
  modeled.
• What is the order of the flows in the 2ar?
• Do you give a global overview or a specific
  overview?
• How might you phrase your overview?

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Scenario 2 - Overview

• The negative kicked politics, went for spending
  tradeoff and defense against both of your
  advantages, poverty and ethno-religious
  conflicts. You believe the negative kicked out of
  politics incorrectly, and the impact is
  extinction because of nuclear war.
• What is the order of the flows in the 2ar?
• Do you give a global overview or a specific
  overview?
• How might you phrase your overview?

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Scenario 3 Overview

• The negative went for ASPEC for 2 minutes and
  then went for politics and case defense against
  your 1 advantage, poverty.
• What is the order of the flows in the 2ar?
• Do you give a global overview or a specific
  overview?
• How might you phrase your overview?

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Scenario 4 - Overview

• The negative goes for topicality substantially
  means 20 for five minutes.
• What is the order of the flows in the 2ar?
• Do you give a global overview or a specific
  overview?
• How might you phrase your overview?

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4. Pick, Choose, and Use Detail

• Dont have to extend every 1ar argument
• Be willing to devote significant time to an
  argument
• Dont forget about the line-by-line
• Exploit the weakness of the negative strategy.

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5. Take Advantage of 2nr Weaknesses

• EXAMPLES
• DA
• - was the disad kicked out of incorrectly?
• - Did the 2nr spend too much time on the link and
  not enough on the uniqueness?
• T/Theory
• Frame based on dropped arguments or best
  arguments. Do a better job explaining your
  standards precede/outweigh/solve theirs
• The 2nr was NOT perfect figure out the
  imperfections

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6. Ask yourself So What

• Do not just extend 1ar arguments/develop
• Make sure judge knows why the argument matters
  how it interacts with the rest of the debate

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7. Comparison, and not just with debate jargon

• Impact comparison more than just time-frame,
  magnitude, and probability
• Reasons why
• Also think about questions of inevitability/who
  controls uniqueness, if case solves the negs
  impact, etc
• Argument/Evidence Comparison
• Evidence reasons to prefer?
• Argument How does yours trump the negatives?
• These types of comparisons do not happen enough

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8. Prove youre an Expert on Your Aff

• Refer to evidence by cite (and argument) know
  your authors
• Explain warrants in your evidence, not just tag
  lines
• (tricks write on side of evidence, have
  pre-written explanations you can edit)
• Dont forget to extend 1ar evidence

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9. Delivery

• Show confidence before, during, and after the
  speech
• Use emphasis
• slow down on key ideas
• use catch-phrases
• connect with your judge
• Start out especially strong know your order,
  deliver the first 30 seconds perfectly, etc.

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10. Role of the 1ar

• 1ars job is not done
• - get evidence in order
• - May need to help out by reading some evidence
  for the 2ar and help with comparison
• Must flow!
• Only interrupt partner if they are about to lose
• Do not write out the majority of the speech for
  the 2ar
• can help with small parts, but make sure you
  have taken time to make sure you understand the
  arguments/can read them

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12. Tips Versus the CP

• When Going for Permutations
• Make sure it is clear which perm you are going
  for
• Repeat text and what it means
• Explain why the permutation is better than the
  counterplan
• Make sure you answer theory
• If you go for theory versus the counterplan
• make sure you do the link, internal link, and
  impact work
• not enough to just respond to the neg, need to be
  sure you can win it
• When debating the solvency deficit
• - Make sure you are citing evidence, not just in
  generic terms especially 1ac evidence

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13. Tips Versus the Kritik

• You must continue the debate about the
  alternative think of like a counterplan
• - easiest way for aff to lose the k debate is
  concede that the alternative solves all the case
• Same tips for permutations apply
• Remember, you must have your story dont just
  extend 1ar arguments

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14. Tips Versus Topicality/Theory

• Have a strategy! Have an overview!
• Frame your arguments offensively
• - example literature checks
• Most likely will be a competing interpretations
  debate because you almost always want to extend a
  counter-interpretation in the 2ar make sure you
  have arguments your interpretation is good and
  why theirs is bad
• Compare impacts for standards ex. what is more
  important, fair limits versus more negative
  ground?
• Can argue against the 2nrs framing of the debate
  being about competing interpretations

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15. Tips for the Case Debate

• Dont have to go for all your advantages pick
  based on 2nr strategy
• If you are going for an advantage outweighs the
  neg, do not put it on the bottom
• Cites key!
• Dont get bogged down on bad arguments, but make
  sure you have an answer

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Finals of the TOC 2ar

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v1xI7YKjvBSY
• Did this 2ar follow all the guidelines?
• Now it is your turn to be in the finals of the
  TOC. 2010!