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Evidence Cards and Research Lecture

Evidence Cards and Research Lecture. Revised by Mark Veeder Originally By Andres Gannon. Section 1 – Importance of Research. I cut my first card!!. Good Debaters. Can persuasively convince the judge their argument is better than their opponents argument Delivery Content

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Evidence Cards and Research Lecture

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  1. Evidence Cards and Research Lecture Revised by Mark Veeder Originally By Andres Gannon

  2. Section 1 – Importance of Research I cut my first card!!

  3. Good Debaters • Can persuasively convince the judge their argument is better than their opponents argument • Delivery • Content Researching is about producing the best possible content you can for a debate

  4. Why Research? • Research wins debates • Research is fun! • Research gets creative Just one more card mom, promise!

  5. Section 2 – How to Research

  6. What to Research • Research should produce arguments that you can read in a debate • What form do these argument take? • How do I organize arguments? • What am I looking for? • How do I get from a google search to a completed file?

  7. Basic Research Tips • No scientific formula for how to research • Start with broad searches to investigate where the literature is going

  8. Intermediate Research Tips • “Digital Privacy” • Picking the Right Language • Following the Lit • Footnotes!

  9. Ultra-Advanced Research Tip

  10. How Not to Research • “Digial Privacy” and “nuclear war” • Ignoring opposing evidence • Million cards, one argument • Debate search terms (key, solves, etc) • Truth • ½ a file Maybe this aff doesn’t cause nuclear war…

  11. Section 3 – Marks Super Secret Guide to the Internets

  12. Internets Shortcuts • New tab – Ctrl+T • New window – Ctrl+N • Open in new window - Middle click/Ctrl+Click • Move to next window - Ctrl+Tab • Move to last window - Ctrl+Shift+Tab • Close tab - Ctrl+W • Select URL - F6 (Command-L)

  13. Google Tricks • Exact phrase search - “X and Y” • Exclude a word - -query • Synonyms - ~query • Website restriction – site:google.com • Wildcard – “a * saved is a * earned” • Around – query AROUND (4) query • Filetype – filetype:pdf

  14. Processing fast hands • Copy - Ctrl-C (Command-C) • Paste - Ctrl-V (Command-V) • Cut - Ctrl-X (Command-X) • Undo - Ctrl-Z (Command-Z) • Redo - Ctrl-Y (Command-Y) • Select all - Ctrl-A (Command-A) • Switch windows – Alt+Tab (4-finger swipe/F3) • Select paragraph - Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Up/Down • Select word - Ctrl+Shift+ArrowLeft/Right

  15. Sources • News and Time Sensitive • Google Date • lexis • EbscoHost • Factiva • Philosophy Based • Project Muse • Religion and Philosophy Collection • Qualified/International • Google Scholar • SagePub • ProjectMuse • IngentaConnect

  16. Section 4 - Processing

  17. What is processing? • The final product of research • What you aim to arrive at when you take articles from the internet and convert them into evidence cards

  18. Things to Have When Processing • Tag • Cite • Card

  19. What is a Tag? • Short summary of the argument your card makes • Why have a tag? • Convey your argument • Flowability • What should be included in a tag? • Claim – argument the card makes • Warrant – why that argument is true

  20. Good tag, bad tag! • Solves oil dependence • The aff is the apotheosis of the capitalist death machine which threatens to be, for the first time in the age of humanity, that which brings upon us our imminent doom in the fiery splash of the decadence of greed and filth • Warming is real and anthropogenic – models and scientific consensus are on our side

  21. What is a Cite? • Why have a cite? • What to include in a cite? • Author name • Author qualifications • Date published • Article name • Source (Newspaper, Journal name, etc) • URL/Database found

  22. Good cite! Brin, David. Doctor of Philosophy in space science, 2010 fellow at the Institute of Ethics.1998. The Transparent Society.“Chapter One: The Challenge of an Open Society” http://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety1.html

  23. What is a card? • What to do: • Don’t skip paragraphs • Don’t cut off paragraphs • Don’t change text • Underline well! • You don’t have to include the entire article

  24. Steps to cutting cards • Open the debate template, Verbatim • Paste the article into Verbatim (F2) • Underline the article (F9 and F10) • Make the article pretty (F3 and Ctrl+8) • Write a tag (F7) • Write a cite (F8 for the author name and date) • Highlight the card (F11)

  25. Section 5- Template

  26. Verbatim paperlessdebate.com Requirements PC – Office 2010 Mac – Office 2011

  27. Word Ribbon

  28. Google Tricks • Exact phrase search - “X and Y” • Exclude a word - -query • Synonyms - ~query • Website restriction – site:google.com • Wildcard – “a * saved is a * earned” • Around – query AROUND (4) query • Filetype – filetype:pdf

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