tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527681249852282693.post-23367669481596824202007-08-10T10:27:00.000-04:002007-08-10T10:36:25.738-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_QXRm8WxqwVE/Rrx3n5p2M7I/AAAAAAAABrI/V6NnNdq-sb0/s1600-h/wdi07cpolevidence2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_QXRm8WxqwVE/Rrx3n5p2M7I/AAAAAAAABrI/V6NnNdq-sb0/s320/wdi07cpolevidence2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097080405651502002" border="0" /></a><br />"Wow," was the expression Dr. Kevin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Kuswa</span> of the University of Richmond used when seeing the intense stack of research that had been produced by the college policy debaters. "It is huge, it is high quality, everything is typed and easy to read, and the arguments are extremely creative. What more could you want?"<br /><br />If you know policy debate in America (one broad topic all year long), then you know that research and evidence are extremely important.<br /><br />The evidence set is perhaps better than any set ever produced by the college program at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">WDI</span>. If you want to have a look at the indexes for all of the files, do so at:<br /><a href="http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/wdi07indexes.pdf">http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/wdi07indexes.pdf</a><br /><span class="" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"></span><br />Unlike other workshops, you cannot simply buy the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">WDI</span> evidence set. You get one (on a CD, all high quality <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">pdf</span> files) if you are enrolled in the program. The CD also contains videos of the topic lectures and a policy debate textbook.<br /><br />Congratulations to the hard working students, scholars and faculty who made this possible.Alfred Charles Sniderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478595639198105911alfred.snider@uvm.edu