Debate basics
A highly specialized research used to locate evidence against a particular case.
What is spot research?
Blocks on websites that require payment to see the content.
What is a paywall?
A debate format in which single debaters on each side debate a proposition of value.
What is Lincoln-Douglas Debate?
To take a selected section from an article or book.
One complete debate
What is a round?
Rules governing behavior.
Dictionaries that index only those words related to a specific field.
What are specialized dictionaries.
This format of debate involve two person teams debating narrow topics of significant controversy in public affairs.
What is public debate?
Facts that combine multiple examples into a single figure.
What are statistics?
The time allotted to question an opponent about arguments and evidence presented in a speech.
What is cross-examination?
Where information comes from?
What are facts?
The complete record of where information is obtained for evidence and used in debates.
What is cite?
A mock legislature in which students debate legislation and follow parliamentary procedures.
What is congressional debate?
Information colleded directly from experimentation and observation.
What is empirical data?
A speech that is prepare in advance of the debate
What is a canned speech?
Groups of experts in a specific field who work together to provide ideas on specific problems.
What are think tanks?
A technique for narrowing a search by putting phrases in quotation marks or adding "and" or "or"
What is a Boolean search?
The statement about which teams are debating also known as the topic?
What is resolution?
A label or category for evidence or arguments.
What is a tag?
The debaters arguing against the adoption of a resolution.
What is Negative?
An outline of arguments and evidence supporting a side.
What is a brief?
An independent, non-partisan research arm of the U.S. Congress that provides analysis of complex policy issues being considered by Congress.
What is Congressional research services?
The second speech given by each speaker in a debate round.
What is rebuttal?
A discussion technique that uncovers possible issues or case areas through random listing of ideas or known facts about a topic.
What is brainstorming?
Debaters arguing in favor of the adoption of a resoultion.
What is affirmative?