Parts of an Argument
The argument that you are about to prove true.
What is the claim?
This part makes the central issue of the contention unique to the status quo and explains why is it relevant to the resolution.
What is the Significance?
This part is reason why the status quo lacks a problem now but any change from the status quo risks things getting worse.
What is Uniqueness?
The first speech in the debate and it is 6 minutes long.
What is the Affirmative Constructive or AC?
These serve to remind your judge what are the most essential arguments and warrants they should have understood from the constructive.
What are Extensions?
This part of an argument is the data or outside source you use to support the validity of your argument.
What is evidence?
The problems that will happen as a result of not affirming the resolution.
This part describes how the action of the affirmative or resolution changes the status quo for the worse.
What is the Link?
DAILY DOUBLE:The second speech in the debate and it is 7 minutes long. You are responsible for introducing your argument while also addressing the opponent's prior speech.
What is the Negative Constructive or NC?
The severity of your impact, a key part of weighing.Think Earthquakes!
What is magnitude?
The logical reason why your argument is true and valid.
What is a Warrant?
The chain of events that can explain how the status quo gets from bad to worse, Think of it like x leads to y and then to z.
What is the Internal Link?
This part of the negative contention explains how we get from the status quo to a catastrophic consequence and is also shared by the affirmative.
What is an Internal link?
The third speech of the debate and starts off the second half of the debate.
What is the First Affirmative Rebuttal or 1AR?
DAILY DOUBLE: The Three steps one could use when engaging the opponents argument.
What are Identify, Summarize and Respond?
DAILY DOUBLE:With the exception of Evidence is the following a complete argument? "We should eat sushi for the rest of our lives because sushi is delicious while being healthy."
No, because it is missing an impact!
The bad or undesirable thing happens as a result of not Affirming the resolution and addressing the problems you outline in your contentions.
What is an Impact?
The bad or undesirable thing that happens as a result of voting for the affirmative.
What is an Impact?
The fourth speech in the debate, if you are giving this speech you might want to treat this as your last chance!
What is the Negative Rebuttal or 2NR?
The likely hood and speed of an impact
What are probability and timeframe?
This part of an argument answers the question "So what?" While also explaining why your argument matters.
What is an impact?
DAILY DOUBLE: Because the affirmative argues that there should be some kind of change from the status quo it must have this part.
In addition to providing their own contentions the negative is responsible for this task?
What is addressing the affirmative's case or contentions?
The final three minute speech of the debate. make it count!
What is the Second Affirmative Rebuttal or 2AR?
All arguments in a debate round can be identified in these two ways.
What are Offensive and Defensive?