Date of Award

5-1931

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Communication

First Advisor

William M. Lamers

Abstract

This work is the outgrowth of two years of debating activity at Marquette University. Very early in his car­eer as a debater the writer realized that the subject treated in these pages is one which has received little attention from the numerous writers on the subject of debate. A perusal of most of these in preparation for this writing served to make this realization a conviction. The possessor of such a conviction, as the writer of a Bachelor's Thesis realizes that his position is somewhat unique and not exactly a happy one, for he invades a field as old as debating itself but mostly virgin soil so far as previous writing is concerned. In consequence the usually frequent footnotes are not so frequent and whatever is given is, more often than not, justified on its own merits, since references to bolster up the writer's opinion have not been published.

The illustrations given herein are taken from a copious set of notes kept by the author on the debates in which he took part. The forms of strategy described come from the same source and he has used or seen used, with success, every one which has found its way into these pages.

The writer is indebted to Waldo Willhoft's, "Modern Debate Practice" which he considers the most practical debate text published to date. He is also indebted to O'Neill, Laycock, and Scales' "Argumentation and Debate" as well as Charles, Woolbert's ''Fundamentals of Speech". To the other works mentioned in the bibliography credit is due in some degree for their masterly treatment of the phases of the subject which they handle.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to the School of Speech of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in Speech

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