BritainKennedy wrote:

Hey, I'm going to be starting my own research group for people on Debate-Central.
Anyone who’s interested post your G-MAIL address below and I’ll invite you to the group.

You don’t have to be a phenomenal researcher to join the group, you just need to have some work ethic, nothing too tedious, maybe 3-5 hours a week should be fine for the group. Each week I’ll assign each of you to a specific argument, you won’t be expected to do too much. Probably a 8-10 page file each with a 1NC, block cards with analytics, and some 2NR overview analytics.

For each card sent into me I want a hand-written explanation of what the warrant of that card is, and as much information on the author you can find, trust me, this will make the quality of it much greater. 

At the end of each week each person in the group will e-mail their work to me and I’ll put it together into one file, which I will then distribute to everyone who contributed. I promise that the files will be of excellent quality as long as everyone is willing to work.

Anyone interested? Anyone is welcome, I’m also going to send everyone’s own file back to them critiquing their work, so anyone who doesn’t write their own blocks now, this will improve you.

I'd love to join, but I can't trust the validity of the cards...
just sayin' BK

Sure I'd like to join sound's like stuff I'm already doing anyways.

http://groups.google.com/group/debate-central

I sent the invitation.

j.dionne92@gmail.com

I will join; however, I don't want tit bags joining.  If I am going to commit to a group...everyone must work!

Also, those in the group, do you like the idea of having like each member cut 2-3 Health Care politics uniqueness cards each week?

I was thinking health care ptx for a couple reasons.

1) It's the best PTX disad.
2) It requires the most up to date evidence.

I'll send you the invite.

I think the health care update is a realy good idea and maby a few others like cap and trade to.

I know but its also importent to update now and then to not as importent has health care but still importent.

im also interested in this group-Ive been debating LD for the last year and for the last 2 years have been doing policy on the national circuit.  Ive also been looking for a group like this, as i have no team at school and could use splitting the work for once. 

cheeseheadsrlife@aim.com

This weeks assignments are posted, everyone check your inbox.

This looks really cool!

I don't know that I'll be able to pop in every week to help look things over but I'll help out when I can whenever people have specific questions.

One thing I'd suggest for politics stuff is getting into google reader, especially Politico (www.politico.com/), TheHill.Com, the Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com/), the New Republic (www.tnr.com/) and any other major Washington news sites. These tend to have slightly more detailed news on the political process effecting major issues like Health Care, Climate, etc