Re: Communication?

[Doyle Srader <DSRADER@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>]

The 1% of disagreement I have with Prof. Hunt is the argument for judge
diversity. I agree that debaters in all debates should be
understandable, and that the benchmark is the judge's ability to
understand *and* *nothing* *else*. I also think it's important that
debaters have a diversity of speaking *experiences*. But I think a
dedicated effort to get debaters into debate rounds in front of lay or
communication-oriented judges changes the setup, pushes the debate game
with its >unique< mode of communication <not an end in itself, but a
consequence of the elevation of argument processing and management over
oral style> to the background, taking the other functions of fast
debate, functions that *aren't* fulfilled by other speaking experiences,
with it.

Doyle Srader
University of Georgia
<706> 548-9938

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• Re: Communication?
• From: Steven Hunt <hunt@lclark.edu>

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