Presentation for Debate CENTRAL SULAWESI

8/8/2019 Presentation for Debate CENTRAL SULAWESI

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Debating : an introduction

Seminar on Debate

Central Sulawesi

October, 19 2010


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Getting to know debating

Debating is a clash of argumentations amongthe Government team and Opposition team

Everything starts from the word motion

Competitive debating aims to simulate aliving, breathing parliamentary debate

The soul of debating is to argue on policies, or

propositions of thought; good or bad,effective or not effective, useful or useless

Who shouts the loudest does not win!


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Competitive Debating 101

Situated in tournaments; competition of

supremacy among teams

The many formats; British Parliamentary,World Schools, Asian Parliamentary,

Australasian Parliamentary -> the generally

used formats

Winners of a debate is determined by a or a

team of adjudicator(s)


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Motion release; prepared and impromptu

Liason Officers; chairperson and timekeepers

Casebuilding time; a 30 minute preparationtime for team members only! Printed

materials are the only source of reference

allowed, no electronics.

Government team casebuilds inside the room,

Opposition team casebuilds outside the room.


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Except for British Parliamentary, a teamcomprises of 3 (three) debaters who would playthe role of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd speakers

A reply speaker closes the case for each team;this role can only be assumed by either the 1st

and/or 2nd speaker

Each substantive speaker (1st to 3rd) is allowed thesame duration of floor time, some formats withPOI times (contd in slide 15)

A reply speaker is usually given between 3 to 4minutes to conclude the teams case


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Competitive Debating 104 :

The map of chronologies


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What it looks like


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Keywords nice to take note of by now..

Motion

Casebuilding

Speaker roles Government/Positive/Proposition team

Opposition/Negative/Refuting team

Tournament format

Adjudicators


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World Style System It is a system applied in WSDC thus implemented also in

NSDC

World Style debate put emphasis on the philosophical

argumentation instead of the practical one.

The job of affirmative team is to propose that there is a

(or some) significant underlying principle(s) to supportthe motion reflected through the team stance

Meanwhile the oppositions job is to provide negation to

the particular stance. The main job of negative is to

simply proof that affirmative team is wrong. It is notimperative for negative to provide a solution.


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Depth of Debating 101

MOTION

Is the topic, a full propositional statement that stateswhat the debate is/shall be about

Usually proposes a policy, against the status quo, oraffirming the virtue (goodness) of a state or condition

A Government team must defend the motion, and theopposition team must negate the motion -> in a

nutshell what competitive debating is aboutEXAMPLE : This house would oblige Developed Nations to

grant development aids to the Developing Countries.


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Depth of Debating 102.1

Definition

Is a need to clarify what the debate is specificallyabout, per keyword of motion if necessary. But it

is not a dictionary explanation of per wordmeaning. But what room of debate the wordsformulate.

Scopes down a motion; to achieve a mutualagreement among both teams on theinterpretation of the motion thus the entry pointfor a debate -> room of debate

A Government team holds the right to determineand offer the definition of a debate, while the

opposition can accept, broaden or challenge the


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A definition is ideal if :

Provides interpretation of a motion that is logicaland acceptable by common sense

It is simply aimed to clarify the debate from themotion wording

In setting a definition there should be room foropposition to negate the debate

Examples of reasonable vs unreasonabledefinition.


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ARGUMENTS

Are points of view that supports the teamstance (support/refute)

It must be logical and make sense

Structure (the AREL theory)

1. Assertion

2. Reasoning3. Evidence/Example

4. Link Back


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Argument Management

Pool of arguments should be evenly and

strategically spread between the 1st

and 2nd

speakers.

Arguments should be consistent within the

teams main stance (theme/team line).

The workload of each speaker is distributed

and is called team split.


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REBUTTALS

Are responses on your opponents arguments

Its not as simple as accusing things

Simply saying your oppositions arguments areinferior does not constitute a good rebuttal

Rebuttals must logically explain and analyze the

weaknesses of an argument


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Points of Information (POI)

Allowance to briefly interrupt a standing speaker

Stand up, raise hand, and offer your POI

Standing speaker has absolute right toaccept/deny your POI

If given permission to POI, the maximum time is

15 seconds, so be concise! POI barging is a bad strategy for a team to do and

can be penalized!


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CASE of a team

All of the above from 101-105 is the anatomy

of the case of a team, which is practicallythe body of what the team is proposing in the

debate

The exciting part is that teams have mostly 30

minutes to do all of that, except for prepared

motions!


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Questions?


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Role of Speakers

1st : Lays out the basic fundaments of the teamscase, including elementary argumentations

2nd : Continues the case by responding, rebuild

the case and provide continuity analysis ofargumentations

3rd : Reviews the overall case of opponent andprovide a more thorough ballistics of response to

argument. No new matter!

Reply : Provide an overview of the debate andwhy their team deserves the debate


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Strategy that must not be named!!

DEFINITIONAL CHALLENGE

Highly not encouraged, it ends up in non-dynamicdebates

Only when the given definition is unfair andundebatable! -> Truistic, Squirelling, Tautological,Time Place setting

But when a challenge is needed, it becomescompulsory for the opposition team to execute!


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Questions?

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