- Preparation – Research your topic, gather evidence, and organize your arguments. This is when you learn the facts and plan your strategy.
- Constructive Speeches – Present your main arguments and supporting evidence to explain your position.
- Rebuttals – Respond to the opposing side’s arguments by pointing out weaknesses or countering with stronger evidence.
- Closing Statements – Summarize your strongest points, reinforce your position, and leave the judges or audience with a clear final impression.
Your Task:
- Choose two different stages from the list above.
- For each stage:
- Explain in your own words what happens in that stage.
- Give one detailed example of something you might do during that stage.
- Explain why that stage is important for a successful debate.
- Post your answers in complete sentences in the comments section below.
Comment Tips:
- Keep your responses focused on debate skills, not personal arguments about the topic.
- Use respectful language — debate is about ideas, not personal attacks.
- Check grammar and punctuation before posting.
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2 Responses
Stage Constructive Speech: When giving such a speech as a constructive speech, you have to make sure to stick to the main point in the argument. There will also be more of the fact that you need evidence to support your speech, evidence is key, not only is it important, evidence helps you win debates. You also have to clarify your position as to giving evidence ( or clarifying your evidence ) so the evidence, the main point in your argument, and your position is clearly stated. For example, say you have to defend a adult on maybe stealing a personal item of their’s, and the other adult, is not clarifying evidence saying that he/she didn’t steal the important item of theirs, so when your defending the person accusing the other of stealing the item, having evidence to your position is a important action to take. Not only would that help you in a debate/case, but that would help you gain more respect and attention to the argument, knowing the person who accused the other has everyone that he stole it, the other person doesn’t have evidence that says he/she didn’t steal it. This stage is important mostly because of the fact you need evidence for every argument, you always need to clarify your position with the evidence, then you also will have to remain on the task of the main point, this stage has much importance because of the fact that evidence, and position, then staying on task of the discussion is important.
Stage Closing Statements: When you have to close a statement, or wrap it up, you have to make sure you summarize your strongest points while finishing the argument, don’t just let your position be diminished, reinforce your position. You have to make sure that when your closing the discussion of the matter, you always have to leave an impression or a gain of respect from the judge or the audience, never just say ” welp, the argument is done. ” that would make you look unprofessional, which is something I hope you wouldn’t want on a case or debate for that matter. Of course, during the discussion you have strong key points and on the main topic, but you always have to give more than just key points and the main topic. Always finish off strong with an argument or a debate, I digress… having to make sure your point gets across is important, especially in an argument/debate, always make sure to stay professional & don’t let your guard down. Always have information or evidence to finish the argument off, when your replying to the opponent, you have to make sure you have a good close to the argument, with evidence and your key point you can finish the argument/debate strong. I feel this stage is important because of the fact that when you close the argument or when your replying to the opponent, you can always give a established argument to close up.
personally for me a prepared, refined, and strong preparation will matter the most since in that stage you will gather the evidence which will lead the rest of the debate, you will also have to reach about the debate topic, and most importantly learn and create your strategy for the entire debate.An example of something that might come up in the debate is having to provide counter which in the preparation stage you can research points for a counter argument before you have to even think about the counter argument. Another stage in a debate which is important is the constructive speeches, in this stage you present most of the information you previously gathered in the preparation stage, while backing your point with evidence and supports. something you might come across while in this stage is stuttering, this can affect the presentation and make it seem like a unprepared, lazy mess, its important to speak with confidence to show your put together.