Companion Guide for Speech & Debate Coaches

The Companion Guide for Speech & Debate Coaches is a supplement for new and experienced coaches. The tips, activities, handouts, samples, exercises, and graphic organizers presented in its pages will prove to be a helpful addition to any coach's existing resources. It begins with basic team management to include recruiting, planning, and tournaments. Then, it explores ways coaches can work with students competing in speech, interpretation of literature, and debate.

Shawn F. Briscoe has spent more than a quarter of a century immersed in the world of academic speech and debate. He believes in the power of the activity and actively seeks to help others reap the benefits of it. He has coached and taught in a variety of educational and competitive settings to include local circuits dominated by lay judges, the high school national circuit, and on the intercollegiate worlds debating circuit. He previously served as the Program Director of the Saint Louis Urban Debate League. Currently, he teaches in the communication department at Glendale Community College in Arizona.