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Oxford-style Debate. The Oxford-style debate format offers opposing sides of a topic to intelligently exchange arguments and rebuttals: an “affirmative” team supports convincing arguments to the motion, while a “negative” team refutes the points made by the affirmative team.
The collection contains materials of presentations of the international ‘Oxford Debate’ (which took place on December 17, Oxford) participants. An exclusive format of events of the Academic Union special partnership and discussion platform for higher.
Traditional Oxford-Style Debate Oxford-style debate is most famously practised by the Oxford Union, the debating society of Oxford University. The Oxford Union's invigorating debating chamber has yielded generations of British parliamentarians, lawyers, journalists and other accomplished advocat...
Debate Topics Topic 1: Assume climate change occurring on Earth is NOT due to human activity. Reason A: Climate change is due to a naturally-occurring physical process such as volcanic activity, shifts in Earth’s orbit, varying Sun output, changes in Earth’s albedo, etc. Choose one
The Oxford-style debate format offers opposing sides of a topic to intelligently exchange arguments and rebuttals: an “affirmative” team supports convincing arguments to the motion, while a “negative” team refutes the points made by the affirmative team.
The Oxford-style debate format involves a debate on a predetermined statement – also called a “motion” – from two opposing perspectives. The two sides either argue “for” or “against” the motion within a formalized structure.
Oxford-style debates provide a setting that is particularly conve- nient for studying the effects of conversational ow. In this competitive debate format, two teams argue for or against a preset motion in order to persuade a live audience to take their position.
