Guide to Public Forum Debate

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  1. 6. Effective _______ is critical to impact the arguments for a citizen judge.
  2. 7. i.e. a member of the American jury.
  3. 9. online at www.nflonline.org).
  4. 10. - punished
  5. 12. BIG
  6. 14. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  7. 16. - _____ connect the claim and its support, sometime obviously, sometime subtly. ______ emerge from the total sum of our experiences and personal observations.
  8. 17. Topics are worded as ________, meaning they advocate solving a problem by establishing a
  9. 18. Effective delivery is critical to impact the arguments for a citizen judge.
  10. 19. The judge is the chairperson of the round (facilitating the coin flip and giving time signals if requested), and may halt any crossfire lacking civility. S/he may not interact in the crossfire.
  11. 20. (off-topic arguments)
  12. 21. The same guidelines for rudeness and stalling apply to the grand crossfire. Resist rushing questions or answers, or trying to do too much in _______; desperation is not persuasive.
Down
  1. 1. good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation.
  2. 2. The round starts with a coin toss; the winning team selects either:
  3. 3. The quantity of arguments is less important than the quality of arguments, just as the quantity of evidence is less important than the quality of evidence.
  4. 4. limits in your speech.
  5. 5. Each team has two minutes of _________.
  6. 8. This speech constructs arguments advocating the resolution’s worthiness. The key analysis will be to present major reasons why there is a problem.
  7. 10. is a team event that advocates or rejects a position posed by the monthly resolution topic
  8. 11. 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.
  9. 13. Having arguments in direct contradiction with each other will ____ clash in rebuttals.
  10. 15. the antagonist of your debate
  11. 19. adding impact to specific words