Good Debaters…
•Persuasively convince a judge that their argument is better than their opponent’s argument▫Ethos▫Pathos▫Logos
A) The tag
•Brief summary of the argument made by the card
•Why tag?▫Explain your argument▫“Flowability”
•What does a tag include?▫Claim▫Warrant
2) The story of economic engagement is inseparable from the story of violent neoliberalism that sponsored inequality, funds the military industrial complex, renders populations disposable, ecological destruction, racism, and incarceration of entire populations. Economic engagement is a strategy of exceptionalist exploitation of the Other for the gain of the self because it employs calculative logic to reduce the radical alterity enjoyed by others to the restrictive confines of our own whims and wishes
B) What is a Cite?
Why have a cite?What does a proper cite include?
Author nameAuthor qualificationsArticle nameArticle sourceArticle dateURL/database
Exemplary citesKreps and Flores-Macías ’13 Sarah E. Kreps, Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, and Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University, “No Strings Attached? Evaluating China’s Trade Relations Abroad,” The Diplomat, 5/17/2013, http://thediplomat.com/china-power/no-strings-attached-evaluating-chinas-trade-relations-abroad/
Pham ’10 J. Peter Pham, director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, was editor of American Foreign Policy Interests, “China's Strategic Penetration of Latin America: What It Means for U.S. Interests,” American Foreign Policy Interests: The Journal of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, Volume 32, Issue 6, 2010, pages 363-381, DOI:10.1080/10803920.2010.535762
C) What is a card?
•Good:▫Fewer ideas – focus▫Conclusiveness▫Consistent
•Bad:▫Don’t skip paragraphs▫Don’t cut off paragraphs▫Don’t change paragraphs
Underlining
•Goldilocks Rule – not too little, not too much
•Isolate key warrants•Box out good phrases•Can be imperfect – highlight later
Cutting Cards in 7 Easy Steps
1. Open the template, Verbatim2. Paste text into Verbatim (F2)3. Underline the card (F9 and F10)4. Condense text (F3 and ctrl+8)5. Write a tag (F7)6. Write a cite (F8 for author name and
year)7. Highlight the card (F11)
Handy Shortcuts
•Copy = ctrl + c•Cut = ctrl + x•Undo = ctrl + z•Select all = ctrl + a•Paste above cite = ctrl + f8 •Switch window = alt + tab
Intermediate tips
•Use the right search engine▫Google▫Google News▫Google Scholar▫SCuFI custom Google search
•Pick the right language•Follow literature•Footnotes/citations
How Not to Research
•X Bad•X Nuclear War•X Outweighs Y•Ignoring opposing evidence•Million cards, one argument
Handy Internets Shortcuts
•New tab = ctrl + t•New window = ctrl + n•Open link in new tab = middle click,
ctrl+click•Move to next tab = ctrl + tab/ctrl + shift
+ tab•Close tab = ctrl + w•Select url = F6/ctrl + L
Handy Google Tricks
•Quotes for exact phrases = “delightful fluffy cats”
•Minus to exclude a word = cats –dogs•Synonyms = ~felines•Website restrictions = -doglovers.com•Wildcard = “If man could be crossed with
a *, it would improve man but deteriorate the *. ”
•Around = cats AROUND (5) superior•Filetype = filetype:pdf
Scholarly/”journal” articles
•Pretty high quality▫Peer edited, qualified authors▫Decent depth
•Moderately difficult to find▫Contained in databases
Using databases
•http://library.dixie.edu▫“Article databases” “Alphabetical list”
•Lexis-Nexis•EBSCO/Academic Search Premier•Project Muse•JSTOR
Think tanks
•Fairly high quality – below books and journal articles
•Usually emphasize particular ideologies or focus on single issues
•Easy to find – online
Newspapers & periodicals
•Medium quality▫Less rigorous editing▫Less citation/sourcing▫Easier to get published by
•Very easy to access – Google News, Lexis-Nexis
•Perfect for DA uniqueness
Random webpages
•Low reliability▫Not edited▫No content standards whatsoever
•Source of choice for crazy/overly ideological people - bias
•Often nonsense
Topic SourcesAmericas QuarterlyBrookings – Latin AmericaCarnegie – Latin AmericaCouncil on Foreign Relations – AmericasWilson Center – Latin AmericaFinancial Times – Beyond BRICs