Understand Lincoln-Douglas Debate
The following PDFs are great resources for understanding Lincoln-Douglas style debate.
- Outline of an LD Debate by Debate Central
- Drinking from our Own Skulls: The Rhetorical Inversion of LD Debate by Jason Baldwin
- Cross Examination: Where the Battle is Won and Lost by Rusty McCrady
- The Importance of Using the Criterion Effectively by Nathan Carle
- My Objection to Your Objection by Jonathan E. Carr
- College LD: The Next Step? by Jason Gordon
- Weighing and Impacting in LD Debate by Anna Manasco
- He Said, She Said: Gender Issues in LD Debate by James Scott
- Logic in LD Part I: Elements Theory by Jason Baldwin
- Logic in LD Part II: Casing Applications by Jason Baldwin
- Logic in LD: Casing Applications (Continued) by Jason Baldwin
- Logic in LD Part III: Cross Examination and Rebuttals by Jason Baldwin
- A Proposal for Resolutionally Based Criterion and Opposing Informing Values in LD Debate by Fred Robertson
- Selected Philosophy Topics that Arise Frequently in LD Debate by David Shapiro
- Individual Rights: The "Nuke War" of LD Debate by Shane Mecham
- Evidence in LD: A Rationale by Jason Baldwin
- Speed in LD: Blessing or Bane by William McCrady
- The Problem of Values as End States by Shane Mecham
- LD Rebuttals as Speeches by Jason Baldwin
- The Social Contract: A Lincoln-Douglas Debate Introduction by William Bennett
- LD: The Forensics Magic Bullet by Bill Gibron
- New Perspectives on Values and Criteria in LD Debate: The Case for Contextual Standards by Ming A. Luong
- Seeking Clarity Through the Fog: On the Use of Values and Criteria in LD Debate by Courtney Balentine and Minh Luong
- Utilizing Legal Resources in Value Argumentation and Advocacy by Elizabeth Rogers and Minh Luong