Competitive debate

The bible for debaters and their coaches. Nearly every high school and college in Americahas a debate club and/or a debate team. There arehundreds of competitions at the county and statelevel, culminating in heated national competitions. Yet, at many high schools and colleges, coachesare drawn from the history or English departmentswith little or no experience in the highly structuredprocedures of this popular discipline. And whilecompetitive debate has been growing each year as aprime academic activity, there have been no popularhandbooks to help students and coaches prepare forcontests…