Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Need help for setting of a debate speech.?

I don't know how much you know about debate or what exactly this is for however in the debate world there are 3 different ways you can look at a topic. First policy, second truth and third value. Policy implies that you are going take action and present a plan, fact means you will state the facts of the issue to proove that the statement is imperically or even factually true, and value means that you will present a value to quantify whether or not in this issue leadership is the answer or not. If i were you i would take this from a fact stand point. You should start out and present definitions to the topic so things the negative team can't present their own definitions that would ultimately make your speech not topical. For instance first define leadership which should be the easy one. Then define the answer which can be taken in many different ways. What do you want the leadership to be the answer to? It seems like you want leadership to be the answer to society's problem. After you define the topic you should have about 4 minutes left. With this four minutes put forth your facts. Your first fact can be the many political views of which leadership has been beneficial to society. After presenting this back this up with some empirical truths like where in history has leadership benefited society ie FDR. I can tell you right now if the other team is good they will be able to present counter truths such as Nazi Germany who created an entire war based on the fact that "leadership is the answer" if you have time you might want to answer such possible arguments in your first speech which ultimately just go to proove that what they think is leadership being bad is in all reality something totally seperate from the leadership that you are pushing for.

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