Counterplans - National Forensic Association

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99 Counterplans: Rethinking What Makes Counterplans Competitive Arguments in Policy Debate Brian Swafford, Ohio University A version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November 2006. Abstract The traditional requirement of counterplans in policy debate is that the counterplan must be non-topical, mutually exclusive, and net beneficial (Lichtman & Rohrer, 1975). Increasingly, resolutions in policy debate rounds at the collegiate level of competition are beginning to include both multi-directional resolutions and bi-directional resolutions.

• framing of the resolution around a central topic with a definite agent of action
• clear agent of action
• plan focus
• debate around a central topic
• negative side
• counterplan
• affirmative side of the debate
• affirmative
• ld
• resolution