Public Forum Debate- Crossword Puzzle

2. Effective delivery is critical to impact the arguments for a citizen judge.
4. (Blank) are worded as resolutions, meaning they advocate solving a problem by establishing a position.
6. This speech constructs arguments advocating the resolution’s worthiness.
7. A team must develop both a pro and con case, persuasively supported by evidence and reasoning.
10. Judges evaluate teams on the quality of the arguments actually made, not on their own personal beliefs, and not on issues they think a particular side should have covered.
11. The more a debater knows about a topic, both arguments and evidence, both pro and con, the more one will be able to practice delivery and hence become truly skilled in the communication of arguments, evidence and analysis.
12. all debaters interact with one another. The first question is asked to the team that just ended its summary by the other team. After the initial question and answer, any debater may question or answer, and all should participate.

1. This speech constructs arguments showing disadvantages of the resolution and why it should not be adopted.
3. 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.
5. Questioning periods give debate interactivity and a change to build clash.
8. This frames, with clarity, why your team has won the debate. Again, no new arguments may be presented
9. Each team has two minutes of prep time.