Each citation of evidence will be in the following format:
MLA citation (check the proper form in the MLA books available from Mr. Jollymore) of the book, article, internet site or newspaper column.
The word "affirmative" or "negative" printed on the top of the page.
A quotation or quotations from the work followed by a summary in your words of what importance the article has to the affirmative or negative side.
A 3 x 5 inch index card is ideal for the purpose. These are now available from Mr. Jollymore.
Example:
Resolution: Resolve that the US government set aside more wilderness acreage
for preservation as forest and national parks.
NEGATIVE
Cronon, William. The Trouble with Wilderness in The Norton Reader, Shorter
10th Edition, p. 352-356, Linda H. Peterson, ed. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company, 2000.
"Those who celebrate the frontier almost always look backward, mourning an older, simpler world that has disappeared forever."
Cronon postulates that the wilderness as American's conceive it never really existed, that it is in some sense an idea rather than a reality, that what has really disappeared is our interaction with the true out-of-doors complete with biting bugs, frigid nights, scarcity and endless, dull vistas filled with little but mud and sky.
Why, he asks, should we "preserve" something that did not exist?
