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    The document provides guidance on the skills needed for debating, including preparation, speech delivery, logic, knowledge, and experience. It also outlines changes to the debate format, suggesting debates be limited to three key reasons in the opening speech and include an emotional closing statement. Sample debate topics on animal testing are presented to demonstrate the debate structure.

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    The document provides guidance on the skills needed for debating, including preparation, speech delivery, logic, knowledge, and experience. It also outlines changes to the debate format, suggesting debates be limited to three key reasons in the opening speech and include an emotional closing statement. Sample debate topics on animal testing are presented to demonstrate the debate structure.

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    Reflection:

    a. What should I keep on doing


    from my debating today?
    b. What needs improvement
    from my debating today?
    5 Skills of a Debater:
    1. Preparation: Structure,
    Research, Facts
    2. Speech: Expression,
    Delivery, Persuasion,
    Argumentation, Clarity
    3. Logic: Cause and Effect,
    Rebuttal
    4. Knowledge: Content, Context,
    Definition
    5. Experience: Emotions, Poise,
    Practice

    Ranked from the most important


    to the least important.
    CHANGES IN FORMAT FOR
    DEBATE
    1. Every debate, your opening
    speech should only have up to
    3 reasons.
    2. Introduction – X, HX, NP,
    HC, C, CC – opening to a
    story, narrative, present a
    problem
    a. Why are we having this
    debate?
    b. How important is this
    debate?
    c. Definition – cited, supports
    your idea
    3. Contention 1: Reason.
    Explanation. Proof
    4. Contention 2: Reason.
    Explanation. Proof
    5. Contention 3: Reason.
    Explanation. Proof
    6. Closing – Emotional
    Statement to persuade the
    listeners.
    Contention – main
    arguments/centermost
    arguments/most important

    Animal Testing
    Affirmative: We should ban
    animal testing.
    a. Do animals have
    rights?
    b. Do we have
    alternatives to animal
    testing?
    c. Is human testing
    viable?
    Negative: We should not ban
    animal testing.
    1. When did the question first
    come? – opening
    2. Why is this question
    important? - opening
    3. If a conclusion is made, what
    will be the effects to us? -
    closing
    4. What are the reasons for
    both sides?
    5. Prepare answers for
    opponent’s rebuttals.
    6. Prepare tons of facts.
    1. Alternatives are expensive
    and most governments cannot
    afford them.
    - Money should never be an
    issue when it comes to life.
    - If the government cannot
    afford them, how can they
    save lives? Money cannot
    buy life but it can buy
    medicine.
    - Unnatural deaths of animals
    thru animal testing could
    cause imbalance in nature.
    - The use of animals are
    highly regulated so it won’t
    have a severe effect on the
    environment.

    - The effects on the


    environment and its
    recovery will be much more
    expensive compared to this.
    - But the devastation human
    testing would cause will be
    bigger and much more
    expensive not just with
    money, but also in life.

    “My favorite book is Teen


    Titans,” said Cota.
    According to Debate.org
    “Everyone should be a vegetarian
    because it is healthy.”
    According Points of View, a
    book written by Cota, “Teen
    Titans are stronger than
    Beyblade.”

    According to Albert Einstein


    “Dogs are better than cats.”

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