DEBATE PRACTICE WEEK 4

AC team NC team

1. 1.
2. 2.
 Resolution 5
Should there be a ban on child performers?
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Take notes of your main argument. Then prepare a short speech of argument.
Record your presentation.
 03 STEPS OF REFUTATION
STEP 1
1. Signpost/ repeat each point Your first point was care.

STEP 2:
2. Rephrase their argument You said that cats require less care.

STEP 3
That is not important! The whole point
3. Negation & Explanations about care is not relevant to owning a
pet. The owner of a pet raise it because
he/she often enjoys taking care of it!
 REVISIT REFUTATION
• Repeat each point
- Fact Step 1
OPINIONS - Policy
- value
• Rephrase what is said
Step 2

- Logical
REASONS - Specific Refute
• Make negations and
- convincing
explanations.
Step 3
• Challenge the supports.

SUPPORTS
No No biased
- Examples source date source
- Explanations
- Statistics
- Expert opinion unreliable Questionable
No explanation statistic expertise
 THREE STEPS OF REFUTATION

SIGNPOST Your first point was cost.

REPHRASE You claimed that the May 1999 issue of Animal Weekly
stated that cats are less expensive.

But this is not necessarily true! The evidence they

NEGATION &
gave was very questionable. You gave no
EXPLANATION
explanation for why cats are cheaper!
 Affirmative constructive:
Yes, [write the opinion / claim].
In this part, you have to use expert opinion or statistics as the evidence to prove your point. Take notes and record your
presentation.

Yes – arguments – Record 1: Name_Yes_Group… Refutation - Record 2: Name_Yes_Refutation_Group…

 Negative constructive:
No, [write the opinion / claim].
In this part, you have to use statistics and/or examples as the evidence to prove your point. Take notes and record your presentation.

No – arguments - Record 3: Name_No_Group… Refutation - Record 4: Name_No_Refutation_Group…