Author: Matt Liu, University of Wyoming Director of Debate
Recently I worked with some of the Cheyenne East debaters to identify a need, brainstorm an idea, and produce an argument. Afterwards I realized that the way we took that idea from start to finish reflected a good research process, and it was worth writing about. This essay will walkthrough that process that we went through to show what a good research process looks like. Read the complete article below the fold.
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Author: Matt Liu, University of Wyoming Director of Debate
A few months ago, before the college national debate championship, I screen-recorded my research and file production process for one of my NDT (National Debate Tournament) assignments. My job was to produce econ "thumpers", or arguments that economic decline is inevitable (this "alt cause" is a handy tool to answer any economy argument). I thought it might be a good example of my research process that I could turn into a research video-lecture. I'll be forthright that I'm not great with video editing software. I'm no Professor Graham! My editing is rough around the edges for sure, but I think this video-essay establishes a ton of useful concept for learning research skills. The econ thumper file I produced took me about 4 hours start to finish, and I had 3 hours and 20 minutes of raw video of that process that I collapsed down into 18 minutes by speeding segments up. I've never been satisfied with any research lecture (that I've given or seen), and I think part of the reason why is that seeing research and file production is the best way to learn how to do it, but it's an hours if not days long process. Time lapse is a partial solution to that problem. You can find the video here! I highly suggest downloading the video, not watching it on Dropbox. |
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