These are key terms you should be familiar with.
Taken from the Middle Schooler's Debate Database (you can find most of these discussed in your textbook.
Argument Checklist.
Clash (what you say in the debate in response must address directly what the other team has said)
Parliamentary Debate
Policy Debate
Affirmative
Proposition
Opposition
Rebuttal
Creating a Case
Creating a Counter Case
- a statement
- a definition
- reasoning
- evidence
- impact (causation vs. correlation)
Clash (what you say in the debate in response must address directly what the other team has said)
Parliamentary Debate
Policy Debate
Affirmative
Proposition
Opposition
Rebuttal
Creating a Case
Creating a Counter Case