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Lincoln-Douglas
  
Our camp provides intensive preparation and
practice on the topics you will actually use during the 2008-2009 year. Our
institute has students prepare cases on the NFL LD topics so that students have
the resources and background on the actual topics that they will debate.
- TRADITIONAL
AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
Students
will be exposed to traditional philosophical perspectives but they
will also learn about contemporary and post-modern perspectives. LD
debaters will leave our camp with a broad based philosophical
background that covers Rousseau, Locke, Rawls, Etzioni, MacKinnon,
Foucault, and many others.
- ONE-ON-ONE
WORK IN SMALL LABS
You do
not sit in large lectures for most of the day at our camp. You do not
research in a corner of a library and you do not sit in a lab with 16
to 20 other students. For most of your day, you work in labs with 3 to
5 other students interacting one-on-one with one of our staff members.
Our staff includes LD state and national champions, people who have
excelled in the Northwest and on the national circuit in
Lincoln-Douglas Debate. These debaters have continued their success in
college advancing to late elimination rounds at the NPDA and NPTE
national championship tournaments. Most importantly, our staff are
people who care about working with you to make you the best that you
can be.
- ADVANCED
DEBATE SKILLS
Students
will learn advanced rhetorical and debate strategies and theories by
examining judge adaptation, values, criteria, philosophers, and
rebuttals. We are also adding on differing levels of lectures so that
students learn the materials most important to their success.
- TONS OF
PRACTICE DEBATES AND DRILL SESSIONS
During the first
two weeks, LD debaters will engage in two full debates with critiques
on seven of the 2008-2009 LD topics plus they will do six practice
sessions covering affirmative and negative case, refutation,
rebuilding arguments, cross-examination, philosophy, values and
criteria. Students in the three-week program will engage in at least 8
additional debates covering three more of the 2008-09 LD Topics. IN
ALL, THREE WEEK STUDENTS COVER ALL TEN NFL LD TOPICS.
- NEW FOR
2008! MORE TIME FOR STRATEGY AND REFINEMENT
We now give
more time on each topic and as a result, debaters at our camp get
hours more to practice with their cases, to adjust and strategize the
cases for maximum effectiveness, and to better reflect on what went
well and what to improve on when debating during the actual year.
- YOU LEAVE
CAMP WITH EVIDENCE ON THE TOPICS YOU WILL DEBATE!
WNDI is
the ONLY camp (at least that we know of) that prepares the topics you
will actually debate. You will leave with affirmative and negative
cases on all of the 2008-09 NFL-LD topics plus evidence and analysis
on key values and criteria that you can use on any topic.
- THE THIRD
WEEK IS AMAZING
LD
debaters learn more advanced philosophy and value theory, debate with
staff members (so you get top notch competition and our staff is
nice!), cover three more of the 2008-09 NFL LD topics, and participate
in a concluding championship tournament.
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Online Registration and Info
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