1. Debate Basics Review

2. What are the key or essential features of debate?
Controversy
2 sides
Status quo
Constructive speeches
Rebuttal speeches
Proposition

3. What are the advantages of the Aff?
Start and end the debate
Set:
Definitions
Values
Criterion

4. What are the advantages of the Neg?
Defending the status quo
Has longest block of uninterrupted speaking time

5. Who has the burden of proof?
Affirmative

6. What are the key differences between the constructive and rebuttal speeches?
Presents the initial arguments
Rebuttal
Defends arguments that have been attacked

7. What are the 3 types of Propositions?
Fact
Value
Policy

8. Give an example of a proposition of fact.

9. Give an example of a proposition of value.

10. Give an example of a proposition of policy.

11. What does critical listening entail?
Continually summarize what the opposition has said
Pay attention to evidence being used
Identify nonverbal or “hidden” meanings

12. What does debate teach? Critical thinking skills
Critical listening skills
Evaluate both sides of an argument
Speak extemporaneously
Organization
Essential values

13. When given a proposition, what is the first step towards building an argument?
RESEARCH!!!

14. What are key characteristics of values?
Standards for determining worth
Abstract
Accepted as enduring goods
Ideals of lasting importance

15. Give examples of intrinsic values.
Justice
Freedom
Equality
Knowledge
Security

16. Give examples of instrumental values.
Property
Altruism
Work
Progress
Family
Community
Leisure
Privacy
Quality of Life

17. What are quasi-values?
Similar, but does not quite meet the criterion to be a value
Generally builds towards values

18. Where can you find definitions?
Common usage
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Books/articles
Examples

19. What are the qualities of a good definition?
Relevant to the argument
Consistent with common usage
Consistent with policymakers
Consistent with grammatical standards

20. Draw the 1st Triad of the Toulmin Model

21. What are the 3 types of claims?
Factual claim: something either is or is not the case
Value claim: what an individual thinks is good or bad
Policy claim: what should or should not be done

22. What are the different types of data?
Testimony: opinion that is offered on behalf of the truth of a claim
Experience
General reputation
Examples: instances used to demonstrate a claim’s validity
Clearly observed and defined
Statistics: demonstrate wide-spread effect of a claim

23. What does the Warrant do?
Shows the relevance and importance of the relationship between data and claim
Evidence infers that a claim is true
A generalization based on data

24. What is in the 2nd Triad?
Backing
Qualifier
Rebuttals

25. What is backing used for?
Evidence supporting a warrant
Similar to evidence supporting a claim
Necessary
Strengthens an argument, but not necessary

26. Why are qualifiers necessary?
They express your degree of confidence in the argument

27. What is the most important part of a value debate?
To establish the criterion

28. What are 3 ways to establish criterion?
Appeal to experts
Appeal to public opinion
Appeal to logic

29. What is the designative issue?
The place where you actually make your arguments.

30. What are the 2 types of contentions
Dependent
Independent

31. When building contentions, what is just as important as research?
Analysis

32. What are the steps to refute an argument?
Identify and summarize argument to be refuted
State why you are refuting it
Present evidence that supports your side
Show the impact of your refutation