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Debate: by Miss Vivi

The document provides guidance on how to structure an academic debate. It defines key debate terminology like resolution, affirmative and negative teams, and rebuttals. It explains that the resolution is the topic being debated and debates involve teams arguing for and against the resolution. The document also discusses how to formulate opinions, provide strong reasons, and different types of evidence to support arguments like examples, common sense, expert opinions, and statistics. Finally, it outlines the structure of a debate with speeches from each team presenting and rebutting arguments.

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Debate: by Miss Vivi

The document provides guidance on how to structure an academic debate. It defines key debate terminology like resolution, affirmative and negative teams, and rebuttals. It explains that the resolution is the topic being debated and debates involve teams arguing for and against the resolution. The document also discusses how to formulate opinions, provide strong reasons, and different types of evidence to support arguments like examples, common sense, expert opinions, and statistics. Finally, it outlines the structure of a debate with speeches from each team presenting and rebutting arguments.

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Debate

By Miss Vivi

Before you debate


Your need to be familiar with basic terminology:
Debate: is a game, from which two opposite teams give
arguments to disagree one from the other.
Resolution: is the topic to be discussed.
Affirmative team: supports the resolution.
Negative team: disagrees with the resolution.
Rebuttal: is the explanation that each team has in
order to support their ideas against the other team.
Judges: they decide who wins the debate.

Resolution
A resolution is an opinion, from which there can be
valid disagreement.
How to give an opinion?
I think that..
I believe that ..
How to give reason indicators?
Because.
Since.

Strong reasons
It is important to have consistent ideas as a way to
convince the judges why your opinion has fundament.
Strong reason qualities:
It logically supports the opinion.
It is specific and states the idea clearly.
It is convincing to a majority of people.

Can you give examples of


strong and weak reasons?

Lets put this step into practice


With your partner, think of at least one strong reason
for each topic (for or against).
1. Women should quit their job after they get married.
REASON:
2. Love is more important than money.
REASON:
3. It is better to be married than single.
REASON:
4. Writing by hand is better than writing by computer.
REASON:

Brainstorm
Lets brainstorm controversial or noncontroversial
issues that can be discussed.

How to support your ideas


There are four kinds of evidence:
1. Example: from your personal experience, or from what you
have heard or read.
Common sense: things you believe everybody knows.
Expert opinion: opinions from experts, this comes from research.
Statistics: numbers, this also comes from research.

Examples
For example / for instance / let me give an example
Whenever I go to a restaurant or bar and there are people smoking near me, I
feel that I am breathing their smoke. This makes me a smoker even though I
don't want to be.
Common Sense: Everyone knows / if...then / it's common knowledge that
Secondhand smoke is very unhealthy for nonsmokers.
Statistics:
Secondhand smoke causes about 250,000 respiratory infections in infants and
children every year, resulting in about 15,000 hospitalizations each year.
Expert Opinion: According to.../ to quote.../ the book _____ says...
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, "secondhand smoke causes
approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers each year."

Debate structure
1.Create teams of 5 people:
2 agree, 2 disagree, 1 mediator.
2. Decide about the topic to be discussed
3. Look for reason why youve selected that resolution.
4. Identify personal point of view regarding the topic.
5. Agree and disagree with different opinions.

Debate structure

Speech 1: The first affirmative speaker introduces the topic and states the
affirmative team's first argument.

Speech 2: The first negative speaker states their first argument.

Speech 3: The second affirmative speaker states their second argument.

Speech 4: The second negative speaker states their second argument.

Give a 5-10 minute break for each team to prepare their rebuttal speech.

Speech 5: The negative team states two rebuttals for the affirmative team's
two arguments and summarizes their own two reasons.

Speech 6: The affirmative team states two rebuttals for the negative team's
two arguments and summarizes their own two reasons.

Debate structure
1.Create teams of 5 people:
2 agree, 2 disagree, 1 mediator.
2. Decide about the topic to be discussed
3. Look for reason why youve selected that resolution.
4. Identify personal point of view regarding the topic.
5. Agree and disagree with different opinions.

The winner is the teams


which convinces the judges
with the best arguments.

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