How to Tag Evidence

How to Tag Evidence

Basic Outline

B) Tagline (Summary of the Evidence)

Author. Credentials. Date. Accessed website/source of evidence

Evidence-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Example

A) To tag, is to shorten and summarize

Josh Hamilton. Speech and Debate Teacher, Royse City High School. 2009.

www.insertthewebsite.com

There are three major steps to taking any article or published material and making it a usable piece of evidence for LD/CX Debate. First, read the article or publication and find the information you want to use. This is called a cut. You simply cut out the information you do not care to use in the argumentation. I call this “cutting the fluff” Second, If necessary/possible, cut that evidence out and paste or tape it to a clean sheet of paper with room at the top to write the tagline and author. Third, create and add the tagline, author, credentials, and date. A tag or tagline is a one sentence summary of the information. Do not forget the author/credentials/source/date

Key things to remember ALL SHOULD BE IN Times new Roman

· Tag lines or the A) cards need to be in 12 pt font and bold

· Credentials or the next line under the A card need to be in 10 point italics with the author, where they are from or new network, and date bold/italics.

· And then the evidence that is copied and pasted needs to be in 11 point font