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Writing and Defending the Affirmative Plan

Though sometimes writing the plan is almost an afterthought in the affirmative research process, how the plan is written and how the affirmative defends it are of central importance to affirmative strategy. There are three important considerations in writing the plan, and they offer competing ways to do so. The plan must be topical, it must implement a solvent mechanism, and it must be written with potential counterplans in mind. This post takes…
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Goodbye, Consult Counterplan

For the past 15 years, the consultation counterplan has been a stock component of the negative’s argumentative arsenal. Beginning on the 1993-1994 Commander in Chief topic, teams argued that the Aff plan should be done, but only after a process of prior, binding consultation with a 3rdparty (NATO, Japan, Congress, etc.). The Neg argued that Consult competed based on an exclusion of the immediate and certain…
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