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RESEARCH BEFORE CAMP

 

RESEARCH BEFORE CAMP. 1

1. BY THE DATE JIM SETS IN MAY, REQUEST RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS. 1

2. PAGES EXPECTED.. 1

3. DEADLINES. 2

4. DO YOUR FILES RIGHT. 3

 

1. BY THE DATE JIM SETS IN MAY, REQUEST RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS

 

A. You will submit requests to a web page indicating which positions you want to research and what qualifications you bring to that research (e.g. you might note that you did the position for the West Coast handbook).

 

B. Jim or Eric will assign research by June 1 with an attempt to honor preferences, issue importance, and your research expertise.

 

C. AFF-NEG LAB LEADERS: You need to request an affirmative case and three negative positions.

 

NOTE TUESDAY, JUNE 30 DEADLINE, SEND TO ERIC CHALFANT THE FOLLOWING:

·        your aff plan text and a few solvency cards

·        a few of your disad link and impact cards

·        your cplan text (the basic idea of it) and a few solvency cards

·        a few of your kritik link and impact cards

 

D. NOVICE LAB LEADERS: You have set cases and positions for your affirmative, counterplan, disadvantage, and kritik. Jim will inform you of these. It will approximate the work other lab leaders have.

 

E. REQUESTS OR CHANGES SUBMITTED AFTER THE MAY DEADLINE: Jake will need to approve and you may not take someone else’s already assigned research.

 

2. PAGES EXPECTED

 

A. FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE CASE YOU PREPARE:

1. A minimum 40 page indexed file with a 1AC and backup evidence (MAXIMUM 125 PAGES).

2. A SEPARATE minimum 20 page indexed negative file with answers to the affirmative case. (MAXIMUM 100 PAGES)

3. IF YOU HAVE A COMPELLING REASON TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM PAGES, CONTACT ERIC.

 

B. FOR EACH NEGATIVE POSITION, PREPARE:

1. A minimum 30 page indexed file with a shell and backup evidence. MAXIMUM SIZE IS 75 PAGES.

2. A SEPARATE minimum 15 page indexed set of answers against the position (the answers should be ones any plan/case could use; you can cut additional answers for specific cases but that must be in excess of the 15 pages). MAXIMUM SIZE IS 50 PAGES.

3. IF YOU HAVE A COMPELLING REASON TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM PAGES, CONTACT ERIC.

 

C. NOVICE LAB LEADERS—IGNORE B AND C ABOVE. INSTEAD, YOU, TOGETHER, NEED TO PREPARE:

1. A minimum 30 page indexed file of additional evidence for your affirmative. MAXIMUM OF 60 PAGES.

2. A minimum of 10 page indexed file of additional evidence for EACH OF your two disads, two counterplans, and two kritiks (Total is 60 pages). MAXIMUM OF 100 PAGES.

3. You do explanations of each position; You need to do shells for these positions only if the Prepbook does not include a shell; You do need to make separate aff and neg files for each of these.

4. Novice lab leaders will need to split up who does what aff, disad, and counterplan (if there is more than one novice lab leader).

5. 8 to 10 ELECTRONIC articles—about 60 to 100 pages of additional, uncut articles (students will cut these in lab ON A COMPUTER). Note: These articles ARE DIFFERENT from the ones you already cut evidence from.

6. IF YOU HAVE A COMPELLING REASON TO EXCEED THE MAXIMUM PAGES, CONTACT ERIC.

 

D. POLICY SCHOLARS LAB LEADERS—IGNORE B AND C ABOVE. INSTEAD, YOU, TOGETHER, NEED TO PREPARE:

1. A minimum 30 page indexed file of evidence for and against your affirmative.

2. A minimum 20 page indexed file of evidence for and against your disadvantage.

3. A minimum 20 page indexed file of evidence for and against your counterplan.

4. A minimum 20 page indexed file of evidence for and against your kritik.

5. You also need to be ready to get the kids in the lab going on these arguments as they are going to be responsible for the bulk of the research in the lab.

6. Eric prepares a 50 page indexed file of evidence for and against topicality arguments.

 

3. DEADLINES

 

A.AFF LAB LEADERS: TUESDAY, JUNE 30:

--AFF PLAN TEXT AND 3ish SOLVENCY CARDS.

--DISAD: 2 TO 3 LINK CARDS, 2 TO 3 IMPACT CARDS.

--COUNTERPLAN TEXT AND 3ish SOLVENCY CARDS.

--KRITIK: 2 TO 3 LINK CARDS, 2 TO 3 IMPACT CARDS.

 

B. TUESDAY, JULY 13, YOUR FULL AFF AND CASE NEG

 

C. THURSDAY, JULY 15, YOUR FULL DISAD AND AFF ANSWERS

 

D. SATURDAY, JULY 17, YOUR FULL COUNTERPLANS AND AFF ANSWERS AND KRITIK AND AFF ANSWERS.

 

GETTING THESE FILES IN TO DAVE IS CRITICAL because he needs to begin printing files days before the camp starts. The printing process for the beginning of camp takes 3 to 4 days to complete and we need the files ready by Sunday night.

 

E. FINES: YOU WILL BE FINED $10 PER FILE FOR EACH 8 HOURS THAT IT IS LATE.

 

F. PUT TOGETHER YOUR ELECTRONIC FILES THAT YOUR LAB WILL CUT AND HAVE THEM READY TO GO WELL BEFORE YOUR LAB BEGINS.

 

4. DO YOUR FILES RIGHT.

 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT:

1) When you mess this stuff up, it means the printers have to spend a ton of extra time fixing your files.

2) IF YOUR FILE IS SUBSTANTIALLY OFF FROM THE BELOW EXPECTATIONS, YOU WILL BE FINED $10 TO $30 FOR EACH FILE DONE IMPROPERLY (and if you don’t follow rule 1 noted below, you can be fired).

3) READ THESE GUIDELINES AND CAREFULLY DOUBLECHECK YOUR FILE TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE FOLLOWING THEM.

wndi.dot (WNDI Template for MS Word)

 

Example Aff File    Example Aff Case Responses File

 

Example DA Neg File    Example DA Responses File

 

Example CP Neg File    Example CP Responses File

 

Example K Neg File    Example K Responses File

 

A. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY BANNED from using files that you did not cut unless they are from your COLLEGE team’s files (no high school files) or you go find the originals. TWO YEARS AGO, WE HAD A PLAGIARIZED FILE!!! Don’t let that happen. I will fire you for this kind of violation.

FURTHER: You may NOT submit a file for the camp with

1. any more than 20% materials from West Coast work you did or that came from a handbook or handbook worker.

2. any more than 20% materials from Whitman/UPS/your team backfiles. NOTICE—YOU MAY NOT TAKE EV FROM THE WHITMAN BACKFILES THAT HAS NOT BEEN RUN BEFORE OR THAT OTHER SCHOOLS DON’T KNOW HAS BEEN RUN.

3. any more than 20% materials from another camp such as Gonzaga.

4. no more than 40% materials from the above sources—THE VASTY MAJORITY OF YOUR WORK NEEDS TO BE NEW STUFF.

ANY EXCEPTIONS TO THESE TWO LIMITS NEED JIM’S PERMISSION.

You must not give your work to another handbook, debate camp, or another high school team.

Failure to follow the above is grounds for firing as it involves risk of plagiarism and it is an abuse to expect to be paid for work that you did not actually do.

ANY EXCEPTIONS REQUIRE JIM’S APPROVAL.

 

B. USE THE WNDI DEBATE TEMPLATE.

wndi.dot (WNDI Template for MS Word)

 

C. NOTICE—WE ACCEPT ONLY PURE WORD DOCUMENTS. Do ALL of your files in MS Word as text—no graphics, no scanning in pictures of cards you hand cut.

NOTE: When pasting into your document—be sure to get rid of html code/tables/etc. (You can see this code as fill in boxes, pictures, tables, etc.) This code makes your document huge and unstable (it can crash your document). PLEASE DELETE IT. Optionally, you can paste it in as text only by clicking Edit, Paste Special, Unformatted Text (in the WNDI TEMPLATE—PRESS CONTROL AND G AT THE SAME TIME).

 

D. AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FILE

--Make sure you have a table of contents at the beginning of your file.

How to make a Table of Contents? Make all your brief titles into “Heading 1” or “Block Titles.” Then, put your cursor at the beginning of the document. Click Insert, Index and Tables, Table of Contents and say okay. Problems? Ask Jim or Eric.

DO A DOUBLECHECK—After doing your table of contents, see if there aren’t missing pages (eg you see pages 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12—where’s 8 and 9? Fix it!); also, check the last pages of your file—a frequent spot for blank pages.

--Include POSITION EXPLANATIONS for each aff and neg position you complete:

A. Lab leaders need to know what each position is so they can prepare affirmative responses, strategies, etc.

B. Your 4 to 6 sentence Position Explanation should include the following:

1. Describe the position.

2. Explain nuances of it—what applies and what doesn’t; impact scenarios; etc.

3. Explain the responses against it; try to think about how other affirmatives/negatives might deploy arguments on the position.

 

E. FORMATTING

--USE CITATIONS LIKE THIS:

July Davis, Professor of Politics, Harvard University, June ’09, JOURNAL OF COMPLEX ISSUES, p. 227

July Davis, Professor of Politics, Harvard University, June ’09, JOURNAL OF COMPLEX ISSUES, accessed 6/4/2007, www.mentalhealthweb.com/psycho/helpers/tips23.htm

--PLEASE GENDER MODIFY EVIDENCE by changing "his conception of . . ." to "his or her conception of . . ." or "their conception of . . ." AND note that you did this in the evidence.

--NO HIGHLIGHTING OF EVIDENCE. You can underline but highlighting slows the printers down significantly.

--NO GRAPHICS OR PICTURES ARE ALLOWED WITHOUT JIM’S CONSENT. Email him if you have questions. Graphics slow down the printing process.

--NO LARGE FONTS OR AREAS OF BLACK/COLOR. THIS COSTS US MONEY because it uses up the print cartridges. Use Times New Roman 10 point font with bold and underline only when needed.

--NO HATS—NO BLANK PAGES. Keep the number of pages to a minimum—otherwise, we pay huge bucks—each unnecessary page gets multiplied by 60+ copies.

 

F. ADHERE TO THE PAGE MINIMUMS AND MAXIMUMS

Do not go under the expected page numbers stated for each kind of assignment. Your pay is docked for doing that.

Do not go over the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM FILE SIZE. If you do, YOU MUST CREATE A SEPARATE ADDITIONAL “FOR THE CD ONLY” FILE. This is because we will NOT print files over the Maximum File Size—it costs too much.

AFF LAB EVIDENCE

1AC WITH BACKUP (AND YOUR ADVANTAGE EVIDENCE) 50 PAGES MINIMUM, 125 PAGE MAXIMUM.

NEGATIVE VS YOUR 1AC (INCLUDING ANSWERS TO THE ADVANTAGE): 25 PAGE MINIMUM; 100 PAGE MAXIMUM

NEG LAB EVIDENCE

NEG SHELL WITH BACKUP: 30 PAGE MINIMUM; 75 PAGE MAXIMUM

AFF ANSWERS TO NEG SHELL: 15 PAGE MINIMUM; 50 PAGE MAXIMUM

NOVICE LAB EVIDENCE

AFF EVIDENCE 30 PAGES MINIMUM; 60 PAGE MAXIMUM

NEG EVIDENCE 10 PAGES MINIMUM PER POSITION (2 DA, 2 CP, 2K); 60 PAGES TOTAL MINIMUM; 100 PAGES MAXIMUM.

 

G. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, SUBMIT TWO FILES: An Affirmative File and a Negative File.

E.G. “Sudan Affirmative.doc” and “Sudan Negative.doc”

E.G. “Oligarchy Kritik.doc” and “Oligarchy Kritik Aff answers.doc”

MAKE SURE YOUR FILE NAME IS WHAT YOU CALLED IT WHEN YOU TOLD JIM AND JAKE. If not, please change it or tell Jim and Jake immediately. IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE because it confuses kids and our printers when the file names don’t match up.

 

H. NOTE: IF YOUR FILE IS SUBSTANTIALLY OFF FROM THE ABOVE EXPECTATIONS, YOU WILL BE FINED $10 FOR EACH FILE DONE IMPROPERLY. When you don’t follow the above—it means extra printing costs and keeps the printing staff working longer hours. Please do your files right.