Debate Reflection Essay
World History
Debate Reflection Essay
10/5/13
Ryan Lan
A debate is a structured argument, and most of the time there will be two or more team speak on a particular topic or issue. Each team will have two or three people to answer and argue over a topic. Although every team will get a chance to speak, but there are time limit, which the speaker would questioned as soon as he conclude his speech. Debate can help to argue against a natural point of arguments in an orderly way. When having a debate, there are six basics skills, style, speed, tone, volume, clarity, and eye contact that a debater will have to learn. Style is the most basic thing a debater should know, it is to control and communicate the arguments. Speed means to speak in a fast enough sound in the limit time, and also make the audience understand what you are arguing. When the speaking starts awhile, the presentation will need a nice tone to makes it more interesting, but at the same time controlling your volume so everyone can hear the argument. Although the debater had done everything above, it came back to the topic. The debate must have a clearly and easy understanding topic or issue, and speaker should take notes and having the eye contact on while other teams are listening. It is important that a debate is clear and fast enough to be finish in a really short time. The day before the day we are going to have the debate, I had research for some blog that teach high school students how to debate. After reading through few of them, I realize that it would be much easier for me to watch a real debate video. Even though I watched the video, and I did studied for some timeline, it is still really hard to understand it. The debate had begin, the three teams, Allies, Axis, and the United Nations were debating. It was really interesting that I was worried about the debating, but when it was my turn to debate, the time flies, and I only need to worried about that fifty seconds. It was nice to
Debate Reflection Essay
10/5/13
Ryan Lan
A debate is a structured argument, and most of the time there will be two or more team speak on a particular topic or issue. Each team will have two or three people to answer and argue over a topic. Although every team will get a chance to speak, but there are time limit, which the speaker would questioned as soon as he conclude his speech. Debate can help to argue against a natural point of arguments in an orderly way. When having a debate, there are six basics skills, style, speed, tone, volume, clarity, and eye contact that a debater will have to learn. Style is the most basic thing a debater should know, it is to control and communicate the arguments. Speed means to speak in a fast enough sound in the limit time, and also make the audience understand what you are arguing. When the speaking starts awhile, the presentation will need a nice tone to makes it more interesting, but at the same time controlling your volume so everyone can hear the argument. Although the debater had done everything above, it came back to the topic. The debate must have a clearly and easy understanding topic or issue, and speaker should take notes and having the eye contact on while other teams are listening. It is important that a debate is clear and fast enough to be finish in a really short time. The day before the day we are going to have the debate, I had research for some blog that teach high school students how to debate. After reading through few of them, I realize that it would be much easier for me to watch a real debate video. Even though I watched the video, and I did studied for some timeline, it is still really hard to understand it. The debate had begin, the three teams, Allies, Axis, and the United Nations were debating. It was really interesting that I was worried about the debating, but when it was my turn to debate, the time flies, and I only need to worried about that fifty seconds. It was nice to
Bibliography: Musgrave, George McCoy. "Rules of Debate." Competitive Debate: Rules and Techniques. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1957. N. pag. Print. A, Kidd. "How to Debate." The English Speaking Union. N.p.: Oxford Union, 2002. N. pag. Print.