DEBATING BASICS Tuesday, August 25, 2015. IMPORTANT VOCAB  Resolution: A debate topic specifically worded to make for fair debates.  Affirmative: The.

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DEBATING BASICS Tuesday, August 25, 2015

IMPORTANT VOCAB  Resolution: A debate topic specifically worded to make for fair debates.  Affirmative: The side or team in a debate that supports the resolution.  Negative: The side in a debate that rejects the resolution.

GENERAL POINT  Structure:  Signposting and explicit labeling of points is always good because it helps organize your speech and create a logical structure for your argument

TYPES OF DEBATES  Model:  This type of debate is usually identified by the use of the word ‘should/would’ and will be about making a change from the status quo.  E.g. This house would legalize euthanasia  Judgment:  This type of debate is usually identified by ‘is’, and usually requires a judgment to be made about something or about which is better from two options. In this type of debate it is particularly good to use a lot of examples.  E.g. This house believes National is better than Labor

MODEL  The Affirmative team:  Must identify a problem with the current situation  Must come up with a solution/model to deal with the problem  Must establish causality: show how/why model will solve the problem  Should illustrate benefits that accrue as a result of this proposal  The Negating team:  Must minimize the problem or show why it doesn’t exist  Must show how/why model won’t work/is bad  Must show how even if the model did work it wouldn’t solve the problem  Should show why benefits won’t accrue  Should illustrate some harms from the proposal

JUDGMENT  The Affirmative team:  Should make a positive/negative judgment about the subject or show that one option is better than another  Should come up with criteria (usually 3 is a good number) upon which to base the judgment  The Negating team:  Challenges the judgment  Challenges the suitability of the criteria or the decision made under each criterion  May bring new criteria to the debate

SPEAKER ROLES

AFFIRMATIVE  First Affirmative  Outline Context of the debate  i.e. explain why the issue has come up  Explain the problem and the need for it to be solved  Outline the model. Make sure it is simple, sensible and feasible or in a judgment debate, set up the criteria and explain why each is important  Lay out your team’s case and introduce your substantive matter

AFFIRMATIVE (CONT.)  Second Affirmative  Respond to attacks from the Negative team  Continue with substantive case of team  Address points in order of importance and make explicit the key issues that need to be driven home for the affirmative to win  Have cohesion with 1st affirmatives speech/points

AFFIRMATIVE (CONT.)  Third Affirmative  Step back from the debate, identify key issues and show why they are important and why they fall to side affirmative  Spend time on rebuttal to consolidate your points and defend them against the attacks to show how you have won

NEGATIVE  First Negative  Rebut the affirmative team’s case.  Critique the problem, attack the model, bring down the benefits  Sometimes a counter model may be introduced  Introduce negative team’s case by way of ‘harms’ to the proposal

NEGATIVE (CONT.)  Second Negative  Continue to attack the affirmative team’s case  Develop negative’s substantive matter  Identify key points of clash and highlight the more important ones

NEGATIVE (CONT.)  Third Negative  Don’t introduce new material  Go over rebuttal and explain difficult points  Spend time identifying important issues/main areas of clash and on each why negative has made superior arguments to that of the affirmative’s