Debate Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 2. Summing up the debate, addressing the most important arguments, and offering voting issues, usually done in the last speech of a debate.
- 5. A reason to affirm or negate
- 8. The topic of a debate
- 10. Preferences of a judge for a debate round
- 11. Debaters may argue that their definition is superior to that of another debater for a variety of reasons such as setting fair limits for the debate or being used in the literature.
- 12. The reason why your claim is true; the reasoning behind a claim.
- 14. Outline of a debate case containing arguments and evidence
- 15. An argument, definition, or assumption that prevents both sides from competing
Down
- 1. The idea that a debate must be fair for both sides.
- 2. A sufficient standard by which to measure competing values
- 3. The critical elements inherent in the resolution that the affirmative must establish in order to prove the validity of the resolution.
- 4. Speeches in which debtors introduce their positions and advocacy
- 6. An argument where teams debate the meaning of certain words in the resolution in an attempt to prove that the affirmative either is or is not debating the topic as worded.
- 7. A weighing mechanism or tool that judges can use to determine which parts of the debate are most important; attempts to tell the judge which impacts matter most and why.
- 9. The major argument in a debate
- 13. A statement made at the beginning of any speech which takes a position with regard to the totality of one’s own or one’s opponent’s analysis. This part of the speech is entirely optional.