Forum Debates- Jordan McCoy
Across
- 2. The judge is the chairperson of the round
- 3. worded as Resolutions
- 6. crossfire time limit is ____ minutes
- 10. This speech constructs arguments showing disadvantages of the resolution and why it should not be adopted.
- 12. The ____ (pro or con)they will argue
- 13. One of the three Important components
- 17. should be looking for faults in the other teams speech
- 18. arguments in direct contradiction with each other will enhance
- 19. Effective _______is critical to impact the arguments for a citizen judge.
- 20. The more a debater knows about a topic, both arguments and evidence
- 21. This speech constructs arguments advocating the resolution’s worthiness.
Down
- 1. stresses that speakers must appeal to
- 4. Each team has two minutes of
- 5. the most crucial component of argumentation is the
- 7. The speaker ___ (begin the debate or give the last speech).
- 8. round starts with a
- 9. widest possible audience through sound reasoning, succinct organization, credible evidence, and clear delivery. Points provide a mechanism for evaluating the relative “quality of debating.”
- 11. These are complicated speeches because each debater has to find a way to explain issues in the light of all that has happened so far – in just two minutes – without speaking too rapidly.
- 14. Questioning periods give debate interactivity and a change to build clash.
- 15. Seated, all debaters interact with one another.
- 16. Both of these debaters have the primary burden of refuting the other team’s arguments by analyzing and explaining flaws in the opponent’s position.