Lesson 1219 of 1570
Policy Debate Evidence: How AI Cuts Cards Without Losing on Topicality
NSDA debate cards have to be source-verifiable — AI can cut and tag, but only if you keep the original PDFs.
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What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2policy debate
- 3NSDA
- 4card cutting
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Section 1
The big idea
Card-cutting is the unglamorous half of policy debate. AI can do it 5x faster — but the second a judge can't find your tag in the original article, the card dies.
Some examples
- Prompt Claude: 'Cut a card from this article, tag = warming causes extinction'
- Ask ChatGPT to find the qualifications block for the author
- Have AI generate the 'cite' header in the format your league uses
- Use Claude to turn a 30-page policy paper into a 200-word card
Try it!
Pick one article you've been meaning to read for next tournament. Have Claude cut three cards from it. Verify each tag in the original before adding to your file.
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