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Debate: Goes To School
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2020
DEBATE
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DEBATE
By: Waston Kurnia A
• Definition
In a simple way, debate is an activity that gives platform for you to have an freedom
to speak up about current issues (e.g. politics, economy, law, environment and etc.)
involving two side of the house, affirmative and negative. Also, you need to give
valid information and valid data. In debate you need to discuss something intensely.
• Motions
Motion is a topic or a regulations that you going to discuss. Usually motion that use in
debating are current issues, economic, politic, law, etc. And during debating in this
context, generally we have some types of motions.
• Aspects in debate
ü Confidence
ü Bravery
ü Relax
ü Being a wikipedia!!
ü Control your emotions J
ü Don’t forget to keep respect on each other even though you are very sure with
your statement!
• Rules
ü Time for delivering speech: 7 minutes & 20 Seconds
ü POI (Point of Information) : 15 seconds
ü POI will be started in 1 minutes of the speaker’s speech until 6 minutes.
During POI you will only give 15 seconds. And in 1 minutes you’ll notified by
1 click bell, and 1 other bell in the 6th minute to remind you the time for POI
it’s over.
ü Stay silent when other speakers are talking
ü Prohibited to bring religion rules, constitution, etc. as main argument
irrelevantly
• Debate Styles
Asian Parliamentary
British Parliamentary
• Case Building
Case building is the time for you to preparing of what you going to bring during your
speech while debating. And, during case building you are analyzing the issues that
going to discuss and you need prepare as well to be not countered by your opponent.
Time for case building:
Ø Asian Parliamentary system: 30 minutes
Ø British Parliamentary system: 15 minutes.
• Roles of Speaker
1st Speaker:
Set up the debate:
2nd Speaker:
ü Clarification
ü Rebuttal
ü Argument
3rd Speaker:
ü Clarification
ü Rebuttal
ü Evaluating the debate
ü Conclusion
ü Persuade the adjudicator or panels to win your team
• Bring fresh idea and different point of view from the opening debate
• Re-set up the debate from different point of view from the opening debate
• Rebuttal
• Conclusion
1. To provide In-depth training on first principles and the building block for
effective and substantive case building
• Constructing Arguments
You need to know the difference between an argument and an assertion. In simple
terms an assertion is something that is stated as true, without enough analysis to
demonstrate that it is reasonable to believe that the statement is likely to be true. It’s a
statement of fact, without proof of its validity.
1. The IDEA
The idea is simply the point you are trying to make. It’s just a heading or a title - it
might be true, it might not, but that’s something for you to prove later. So for
example, in the debate “That we should ban smoking in pubs and clubs”, the first
affirmative speaker might have as the IDEA for one argument, “that banning smoking
will improve the profits of the businesses involved”. Now that may be true, but it
hasn’t been proved yet; it’s just an IDEA. IDEA‟s are often the things you mention
when you are signposting your part of the team split. For example: “I will be talking
about the economic reasons why we should ban smoking in pubs and clubs. My first
argument is that it will improve the profits of the businesses involved.” (IDEA)
2. ANALYSIS
Once you have an IDEA, the next step is to provide the analysis to prove it. Basically
this is where you show logically or analytically that the IDEA is likely to be true (it’s
hard to really “prove” things in debates, but you can show it’s highly likely to be
true). You can do this by demonstrating that logically the IDEA is true when taken in
the context of the topic, or you can offer a series of reasons to support it. Using the
previous example of banning smoking, a speaker might say, “Banning smoking will
actually generate more profits for businesses, because it will attract more customers.
At present many potential customers are put off going out to pubs and clubs, or cut
short their visits because they are put off by cigarette smoke, which they know is
dangerous to them”. You could explain this in more detail but I think you get the
point. However, although this ANALYSIS is partially persuasive on its own as a
justification for the IDEA, it would be stronger if it had some evidence.
3. Evidence
The third step, EVIDENCE, is usually the easiest. This is the stage where you provide
something like a statistic, a survey, a case study or an analogy to give greater
credibility to your IDEA and ANALYSIS. Partly because it’s the easiest to do, it’s
also the least important link in the chain of an argument, but it’s a good to thing to
have1. So to finish our example-argument one piece of evidence might be a survey
conducted by ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) that demonstrates how a
significant number of people would spend more time in smoke-free pubs and clubs.
4. LINKING BACK
The last step is linking back. In this phase, you need to give a hold on your speech to
make sure and bold your big point to tell to the adjudicator and the audience.
• Benefit of Debate
ü You will be so critical on thinking
ü You will find your own confidence
ü Meeting debating community and it’s really beneficial for you
ü Building relations
ü Applicable to your real life for example, when you are discussing a thing with
your friend, you will be smarter than them and you’ll have better elaborations.
ü Last but not least, you will be cooler. J