The three phases of the policy debate in order are constructive, cross-examination, and rebuttal.

The Role of the Judge These are two separate questions; judges generally decide who won or lost the debate and then assess the technical and persuasion skills of each of the students. For this reason, the winning team may occasionally have fewer points than the losing team.

Question 3: During the rebuttal section of a formal debate, which team speaks first? ProConThe moderator chooses who speaks firstThe team that presented the most compelling constructive argumentsThat is right! The Con team speaks first during rebuttal.

NFL rules call for 5 minutes of total prep time that can be used, although in practice high school debate tournaments usually give 8 minutes of prep time….Event structure.

Speech	Time (High School)	Time (College)
First Affirmative Rebuttal (1AR)	5 minutes	6 minutes
Second Negative Rebuttal (2NR)	5 minutes	6 minutes

Structure for Debate A formal debate usually involves three groups: one supporting a resolution (affirmative team), one opposing the resolution (opposing team), and those who are judging the quality of the evidence and arguments and the performance in the debate.

Rules of Debate

• There are two teams, each consisting of two or three speakers.
• Each team has two or three constructive speeches, and two to three rebuttal speeches.
• When worded as a proposition of policy, the topic requires the affirmative to support some specified action by some particular individual or group.

How To Be A Good Debater

1. Keep Calm. This is the golden rule of debating.
2. Act Confident. This point applies not just to debating but also to life.
3. Maintain Proper Body Language.
4. Know The Form Of The Debate.
5. Use Of Debate Jargons.
6. Work On Emotions.
7. Speak Loud And Clear.
8. Keep The Topic On Track.

Improving rigorous higher-order and critical thinking skills. Enhancing the ability to structure and organize thoughts. Enhancing learners’ analytical, research and note-taking kills. Improving learners’ ability to form balanced, informed arguments and to use reasoning and evidence.

19 Ways To Win An Argument (Even If You Know You’re Wrong)

1. Carry your opponent’s proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it.
2. Use different meanings of your opponent’s words to refute his or her argument.
3. Ignore your opponent’s proposition, which was intended to refer to a particular thing.
4. Hide your conclusion from your opponent until the end.

There are three main ways to respond to an argument: 1) challenge the facts the other person is using; 2) challenge the conclusions they draw from those facts; and 3) accept the point, but argue the weighting of that point (i.e., other points should be considered above this one.)

Take a look at five ways you can prove someone wrong when they underestimate you.

1. Know Yourself. Before you can prove anyone wrong about what they said, you must understand their point of view, and you must understand your point of view.
2. Believe in Yourself.
3. Discern When to be Proved Wrong.
4. Shut Up and Work Hard.
5. Show up.

It is completely normal and healthy for couples to have small fights every day in a relationship. It’s not the frequency of which you fight that is bad, but rather HOW you fight. When fights involve criticism, contempt, name-calling or yelling. Those behaviors will damage the relationship and can lead to divorce.

How to Win an Argument – Dos, Don’ts and Sneaky Tactics

1. Stay calm. Even if you get passionate about your point you must stay cool and in command of your emotions.
2. Use facts as evidence for your position.
3. Ask questions.
4. Use logic.
5. Appeal to higher values.
6. Listen carefully.
7. Be prepared to concede a good point.
8. Study your opponent.

Link your argument back to the topic, and provide evidence to back it up. Tell the judge why this evidence proves that your argument is superior to your opponent’s argument. This should take several sentences and possibly several minutes, depending on how many arguments you plan to address in your rebuttal.

How to Write a Debate

1. Step One: A Strong Opening. Every good debate starts with a strong opening line.
2. Step Two: Defining the Topic. After your opening you need to make the subject that you’re talking about crystal-clear to your listeners.
3. Step Three: Signposting.
4. Step Four: Rebuttal.
5. Step Five: Your Arguments.
6. Step Six: Conclusion.

Here are 9 tips and examples for concluding a speech.

1. 1) Plan Your Closing Remarks Word for Word.
2. 2) Always End a Speech With a Call to Action.
3. 3) End a Speech With a Summary.
4. 4) Close with a story.
5. 5) Make Them Laugh.
6. 6) Make It Rhyme.
7. 7) Close With Inspiration.
8. 8) Make it Clear That You’re Done.

Prepare an opening speech that introduces the negative position and provides 3 to 5 main points, each with supporting evidence. Organize a rebuttal and prepare answers to questions. Outline and describe possible rebuttals to your points and develop responses to them. Be sure to back up all points with evidence.

The debate format is relatively simple; each team member of each side speaks for five minutes, alternating sides. A ten-minute discussion period, similar to other formats’ “open cross-examination” time follows, and then a five-minute break (comparable to other formats’ preparation time).

Team policy debate is the oldest, and still probably the most popular, format of debate practiced in American high schools. The proposition side is called the Affirmative or Aff, and the opposition side is called the Negative or Neg.

A discussion moderator or debate moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate.

It depends.. Sometimes you can be the proposition, opposition, audience, moderator and timekeeper. It’s up to you but in your question “YOUR POSITION”, the answer to that is audience.

Debate is a social way of expression your point of view on a topic. And it teaches students how to accept different point of views of theirs and others in the same topic. They learn agree to disagree, may find a way to solve an issue, learn how to compromise with others.

Opening the debate:

1. [a nice opening is using a quote]
2. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to this debate.
3. Welcome from this side of the house…
4. The motion for debate today is: …
5. Now we as today’s proposition/opposition strongly believe that this is true/not true.
6. let us first define some important terms in this debate.

Answer: he or she should have great evidence,and have faith in his or herself to debate with others. he or she should also be confident for what he or she is answering and never back down. the facts that can be used to back his or her opinion is whatever the topic she or he is debating and standing up for.

The Don’ts of debate:

• Do not address the adjudicator.
• Never carry the piece of paper or any other form of notes.
• Do not forget about mannerism on the stage.
• Do not interrupt other speakers while they are speaking.
• Do not shout or talk loudly.
• Do not use ‘um’ or ’em; within the speech.