Argue to Win: A Complete Guide to Competitive Debate for Students and Coaches

By John Muzurio

Policy. Lincoln-Douglas. Public Forum. Parliamentary. One book, all four.

Most debate advice is scattered across forum threads, camp handouts, and coaches who learned it from someone else. This is the whole system in one place, written plainly, without the jargon that makes debate look harder than it is.

Twelve chapters take you from reading a resolution to standing up in the final focus: how to research fast enough to keep up, build an affirmative case that holds, run a negative strategy that does more than say no, flow a round accurately, question with a purpose, weigh impacts when both sides sound right, and rebuild your case when the round has moved.
What is insideAll four major U.S. formats side by side, with speech order, timings and speaker roles12 end-of-chapter drills you can run at practice this week32 common-mistake callouts naming the errors that lose novice roundsAnnotated walk-throughs of a cross-examination exchange, a cut card, an extension and an impact-comparison flowJudge paradigms, opponent scouting and a tournament-day planFor coaches: a zero-to-one curriculum sequence and a drill library that runs on no budgetWho it is forFirst-year debaters who want a foundation instead of fragments. Returning competitors sharpening fundamentals. Coaches and captains building a program from nothing. Homeschool and club programs with no school team behind them.

Read it front to back before the season. Keep it on the table during it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1ZX9DQP
• ISBN13: 9798197059680
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"