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Gordon R. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Debate at the University of Pittsburgh, and is indebted to Thomas B. Farrell, G. Thomas Goodnight and David Zarefsky for ideas, comments, and reflections on early drafts of this work

Gordon R. Mitchell Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Debate, University of Pittsburgh,

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