What is flowing?

Flowing is the act of writing down the taglines and cards from your opponents cards as they say them, you should do this for your cards and rebuttals as well. Flowing lets you keep track of what arguments both sides are running, and what you need to respond to next.

Unlike other aspects of debate, flowing doesn’t have a set requirements as specific aspects are left to personal preference. Here I have common practices and advice listed to organize your flow paper effectively.

• Abbreviate as much as possible to speed things up, ie, gov. instead of government
• Use multiple colors of pen to clarify who is speaking ie
• Have many sheets ready in case you run out of room
• Focus on writing taglines, and author names

Example flow