University of Richmond

Resources 

The Debate Team at Richmond has several useful resources and links.

Debate Glossary
The debate glossary serves as a reference for commonly used debate terminology.

Speech Center
This valuable resource offers assistance to those who wish to pursue effective speaking and articulate behavior across academic disciplines. The goal of the Speech Center is to offer assistance of the highest quality to student clients provided by well-trained student colleagues who may also be classmates and acquaintances.

URNDI Debate Files
These collections of files support the NFL high school policy debate topics and resolutions for Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Laureate Awards
The Laureate is the annual awards ceremony held by the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies each April. Recipients are awarded with certificates and recognition, and the Debate Team has its own set of honors. The award categories are novice of the year, junior varsity debater of the year, most improved award, coach’s award, most valuable researcher and most valuable.