Flowing Casey Parsons What is flowing Flowing is

Flowing Casey Parsons

What is flowing? • Flowing is how we take notes in debate • It’s an important skill – having an accurate record of the arguments your opponent makes is important to answering those arguments • Flowing separates smart kids who could potentially be good at debate from people who are actually good at debate

How do I flow? • You’ll need several pieces of printer paper oriented vertically • Every aff contention and advantage gets its own piece of paper • Every neg off-case position gets its own piece of paper. Remember, these include: • • Topicality DA’s Counterplans Kritiks • Use one color for aff arguments and one color for neg arguments

Shorthand • I don’t have a complete list of shorthand because it’s specific to every person • Make sure you come up with a system you can remember and read • Authors and dates are always listed as the authors last name followed by the year the card was from

How do I flow? • Write down the taglines of each argument as well as the author and the date in an extremely narrow column • Leave lots of space between each argument so you can write answers • The following slide is an example of an advantage and a disadvantage being flowed after the 1 AC and the 1 NC • Flowing involves lots of shorthand writing very quickly, so it requires lots of practice

How do I flow? • After that, write your answers to those arguments in the next column • This continues until the last speech, so the most important thing is to make sure you leave plenty of space to write arguments and that you make your columns extremely narrow • You can never use too much paper • The following slide is an example of an advantage and disadvantage flow at the end of 2 AC • Try and identify what each response to the original argument is