Week 1

Q. From where did LD debate come?Q. Where policy debate involves federal policy, what does LD involve? Q. LD involves which civilization?

Resolved: Rehabilitation ought to be valued above retribution in the United States criminal justice system.

Type of sourceAuthor qualificationDate

Presents an initial argument in support of the resolutionPre-written, also called affirmative case, AC, or 1ACIncluded:DefinitionsEstablishing what it means to be moral (value premise)Criterionthe standards that must occur to achieve the value premiseContentions (reasons why the resolution is true)

Known as CXThe negative debater asks the affirmative questionsClarification questionsintended to understand informationPointed questionsintended to reveal flaws

Presents negative arguments in refute of the resolution and responds to affirmative argumentsFirst 2-3.5 minutes are pre-written, also called negative case, NCIncluded:Alternative definitionsEstablishing counter value premiseContentions (reasons why the resolution is false)

The affirmative debater asks the negative questionsClarification questionsintended to understand informationPointed questionsintended to reveal flawsClash

Also called 1AR1st chance that affirmative gets to respond to negs argumentsOften considered hardest speech due to time and previous 7 min. speechDetermine core reasons for prefering affs position

Also called 2NRLast time neg will present position and reasons they won the debateAnswer all of affs argumentsGive overview of the round and why you should winPreempt possible responses the aff will make in the 2AR

Also called 2ARFinal speechGive overview of the round and why you should winNo new arguments can be made

ClaimConcise summary of your argument (like a topic sentence)statement of what you believe to be trueWarrantProof of why your claim is trueAnalytical warrants: logical reasoningEmpirical warrants: dataImpactExplains why the argument matters.

Research Toulminhttps://sites.google.com/site/anintroductiontodebate/lectures/1-the-basics/3-gathering-evidence

Claim: My dad should use a hearing aid.Warrant: Samantha eats bugs. Impact: (Based on the value premise of weirdness being a bad quality) Samantha would harm the reputation of the debate team.

Claim: I deserve the car this Friday night. Warrant: I got a 4.0 on my report card (internal linkhard work should be rewarded)Impact (so what?): Good grades get me into a good college (internal link to warrantrewards motivate me to work harder)

Rebuttals: Arent hard work and sacrifice rewards by themselves?Cant you be motivated to succeed without reward or praise?