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as good lawyers take complex facts and make them simple for a jury to understand, how-ever, the best debaters understand the basics, and see through the complexity by knowing that at the end of the day, arguments in policy debate, whatever they are called, boil down to: CLAIMS-WARRANTS and EVIDENCE.
A STUDENT GUIDE TO DEBATE. 1. Debate Structure. 2 teams – Proposition & Opposition. 3 speakers per team. 1.1 Who else is present? Speaker of the House – chairs the debate; technically all speeches and points of information are directed to him/her, they call each debater to the floor, etc. Timekeeper. Judge(s) Audience Members. 1.2 National Times.
Rules. debate has a Chairman who conducts the debate and a timekeeper who records the time of each speaker. There are two teams: . an Affirmative – the team that agrees with the topic; and. a Negative – the team that disagrees with the topic. Each side consists of three members; first, second and third speakers.
Debate 101: 10 Steps to Successful Debating. 1968 - 1990 Debater & Coach. Life After Debate. Step 1: Analyze the type of proposition you are debating. Claims are the starting point of argument. Different Types of Claims entail different obligations and require different types of support.
First, the general structure of an argument applies to all formats of debate. An argument must contain these three elements: claim, warrant, and impact. claim is a declarative statement - it establishes your argument. warrant is the justification for your claim. It establishes why your claim is true.
This timely fifth edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.
The structure determining the rules of the debate: number of debaters, length of the speeches, interventions and the role of each speaker. House Comprises the Adjudicators, Moderator, Debaters, audience, etc.
