A variety of materials to help our debaters hone their skills are available below. Knowledge seminars will be added (with authors’ permission) as they are presented throughout the year.
Past Motions
Guides
Guide to British Parliamentary Debating (2006)
Guide to Canadian Parliamentary Debating (2005)
Constructing a CP Case (Video)
Seminars
Diana Holloway, on How to be Equitable in Rounds
Jake Roth’s Debating Basics Seminar
Addy Rawat’s Actor Analysis Seminar
Brent Leung’s Summer Seminars 2020
For archived content seminars, click here.
External Links
The Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate
CUSID’s southerly sibling, the American Parliamentary Debate Association
Thinking more global? IDEA
Past editions of The Monash Review, the only international peer-reviewed debating journal
Watch recorded rounds: