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Evidence and Ethics

Evidence and Ethics. HDC Public Forum Workshop Session 1: Byron and Sandy. What is Ethics? Why is ethics important in Public Forum debate?. What is Evidence?.

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Evidence and Ethics

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  1. Evidence and Ethics HDC Public Forum Workshop Session 1: Byron and Sandy

  2. What is Ethics?Why is ethics important in Public Forum debate?

  3. What is Evidence? • Evidence Defined: “Debaters are responsible for the validity of all evidence they introduce in the debate. Evidence includes, but is not limited to: facts, expert’s opinion, statistics, or examples attributable to a specific, identifiable, authoritative source used to support a claim. Unattributed ideas are the opinion of the student competitor and are not evidence.” (NSDA, 2014)

  4. Practical Issues to Consider • Reading/know the literature is the first step. • Reading/Quoting directly vs Summarizing evidence in round. • CONTEXT OF THE EVIDENCE MATTERS

  5. An example of a card…

  6. In 2014, Expect More Violence and Terrorism in Sahel • Arbour, December 30, 2013. [Louise Arbour, President of the International Crisis Group, “Next Year’s Wars: From Sochi to Sudan, 10 conflicts that will threaten global security in 2014,” Foreign Policy, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/30/next_year_s_wars#sthash.8K9uYPLh.dpbs ]SJB • The Sahel region and Northern Nigeria have emerged as major sources of instability for parts of West and Central Africa, as last year's watchlist foretold. In 2014, expect separatist movements, Islamist terrorism, and north-south tensions to continue to spark violence, which the region's weak or stressed governments are ill-equipped to address.

  7. Best Practices • In preparation: • Full citation • Direct quotation • Paragraph at least – context and warrants • Don’t do your own math

  8. Case Writing • Footnoting • Attach full cards to the back of the case • Do not use “blippy” cards • Blocks

  9. In Round Oral Citation • Community Practice • NSDA: “In all debate events, contestants are expected to, at a minimum, orally deliver the following when introducing evidence in a debate round: author’s name (last), and year of publication. Any other information such as source, author’s qualifications, etc. may be given, but is not required. Should two or more quotations be used from the same source, the author and year must be given orally only for the first piece of evidence from that source. Subsequently, only the author’s name is required.” (2014)

  10. HDC Workshop Expectations • Disclosure of contention level arguments by lab to be posted on the main site • Post articles that you are reading on the Lab Reading List to share with others • The expectation is that if you are asked for a citation, you will share it. A place to post article links will be provided for each lab. • Ability to produce evidence in the round, when asked.

  11. An Ethics Challenge is NOT a weapon

  12. Scenarios to Discuss… • When someone doesn’t give you a full cite • When evidence doesn’t seem to make sense • When evidence seems too good to be true

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