Arguments
What is the intended audience of your points?
The people whom you are directing your arguments to (the people that you're talking to...varies)
What are impacts?
They make your points more important (Broad definitions can be accepted)
What are rebuttals?
Responses to your opposing stance that weaken or eliminate their arguments.
What is the basic structure of mechanisms?
A to B
What is the scope of something?
How many people it reaches and influences, regardless of who they are or other superficial (表面) factors
What are direct rebuttals?
Directly say that your opposing stance is wrong, and proving why.
What is the analysis of likelihood?
Proving why something that benefits your stance is likely to happen. (proving why something is likely to happen is acceptable too)
What is the magnitude of something?
How deeply it impacts someone, or society. Not the size of the impact, instead the depth, and the importance of the impact.
What are flips?
Saying that your opponents have a point, but that instead helps you because their argument actually benefits your side, or proving the direct opposite.
What is incentive analysis?
There are actors (people that influence the topic, for example, if the topic was about school, the actors would be students, teachers e.t.c.) in a debate, and incentive analysis is to prove the reasons behind their actions, why they would want to do something, all the while being in your favor. (Prove why a specific group of people or why someone would want to do something and why that helps you.)
How can impacts be used apart from making your own points seem important by itself?
It can be weighed (comparing the importance of something) against the impacts of the stance that opposes yours.
How can weighing impacts be a form of rebuttal?
Because you could say that even if your opposing side is right, they have less impact that you, therefore their point doesn't matter since they can't weigh over you.