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Debate Skills Lectures
These videos are all very helpful for any people looking to advance their skills as a debater, but a decent number of them apply to a slightly different parliamentary format to the one we use. Keep that in mind when going through the videos / taking notes, as some information will be counterproductive or extraneous.
There are separate documents for novice-focused and advanced-focused videos, but you aren’t required to just look at one or the other— different topics will probably need to be brushed up on by different people. One could be an advanced level debater but still only have a novice level understanding of POIs.
Novice Resources:
Generalized Intro to Debate + Making Arguments:
Crash Course Intro to Deductive / Inductive / Abductive Reasoning:
POIs:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUf_gGLNnDc Tips for raising your speaker points:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLhjORZWZLY
Note-taking/flowing debate rounds (skip to 1:00) (meant for policy debate but can be useful for parliamentary debate too):
Argument Building (this video is really slow and just shows ARE but without the IS, but good review):
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZ4YEuThRw Rebuttals (first video is an overview):
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNI1kwJTcQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7n7UDbCjB0 Ethos/Pathos/Logos:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3MMERy4nWY Impact Calculus:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUAMRUVkemY
Advanced Resources
Case Construction by Ashish Kumar:
Debating U.S foreign policy:
Understanding and Debating the Middle East
Seven Mistakes to Avoid
Effective Rebuttal
Framing
Impact Calculus