DAs
What is a DA
plan: go get ice cream
Disadvantage: a bad outcome of getting ice cream
Parts of a DA
Uniqueness
Link
�Internal Link
Impact
Uniqueness
-description of the status quo
What is happening right now?
Remember!!! - The plan does something, so the uniqueness is like saying right now is good so why should we change it?
-It means the brink
Uniqueness cont…
Pretend you have a water bottle
When the water bottle is on the edge that is the uniqueness
Link
-how the plan leads to the bad thing
-something that CAUSES the plan to result in a bad thing
Link cont…
Let’s say the a person (the plan) pushed the water bottle off the table
That person is the link! (instructors expand on this more)
Internal Link
Another link (bridges the link to impact)
HOW the Link → the Impact
-could be another factor
-instructors expand on this!!
-the internal link is confusing
Internal Link cont…
The water bottle is falling
Impact
Bad thing (why is what the aff does bad?)
-big fast strong
Impact cont…
Water spilling is the impact
Big mess, hard to clean up
A DA in its entirety
UQ: what is happening RIGHT NOW
Link: why doing ___ makes what is happening RIGHT NOW into something BAD
Impact: why that something is bad
Example: (it's a silly example, don't take it literally)
Plan: I should buy a nintendo switch
UQ: Right now, I have enough money to pay for my rent, but I can barely pay for it.
Link: Buying a nintendo switch makes my bank account cry because I have no more money
Internal link: I can't pay my rent
Impact: I get kicked out :(
Example of a DA - fun
Here's an example of a DA
UQ: right now all of the ADI staff members are healthy
Link: ADI staff members get ice cream for a day
Internal link: ice cream is unhealthy because it has a lot of sugar
Impact: eating ice cream leads to an unhealthy lifestyle which is bad
Example of a DA - serious
Here's another DA that’s more serious
UQ: An infrastructure bill is close to passing
Link: passing water reform causes congress to not vote on the infrastructure bill
Internal link: infrastructure is key to green technology, green technology solves warming
Impact: warming → extinction
Answering DAs
Break it down into the four parts, you HAVE TO answer at least on part
Answer:
-uniqueness
-Link // internal link
-impact
Uniqueness
-Non Unique - right now is already so bad, doing the plan doesn’t even matter
-Uniqueness overwhelms the link - right now is so good that the plan won’t change anything
Link
-no link - the plan doesn’t do anything bad
-alt causes - there’s other causes to the link, other things do the same thing as the plan
-link turn - the plan does the opposite - it actually makes whatever you say is bad less likely to happen
Internal link
-no link - same thing!
-link turn - same thing!
Impact
-case outweighs - whatever the aff does is more important than whatever the DA does
-No impact - whatever thing you say is bad doesn’t actually matter
-Impact turn - whatever you say is bad is actually good!
WATER BOTTLE EXAMPLE!!!!!
[1] UQ - the water bottle is close to falling off, but its near the desk
[2] Link - I push the water bottle off
[3] Internal link - the water bottle is falling
[4] Impact - the water bottle spills everywhere :(
ANSWERING THE DA!
[1] Non-UQ - the water bottle has already fallen off!
[2] UQ overwhelms the link - the water bottle is so on the desk that even if I push it, it will not fall off
[3] No link - I don’t push it off or I miss the water bottle
[4] No Impact - the water bottle doesn’t spill because the cap is on
[5] Impact Turn - the water bottle spills on my plant and my plant is happy :)
[6] Alt Cause - other people or the wind will push my bottle off :(