World Schools Style Debating Guide

Win debates and improve your speaker scores with this guide to World Schools Style debating. Tournament-winning provincial and national coaches have designed this step-by-step approach proven to boost your debating skills. You will learn how to identify your burdens for Change and Evaluative debates, build smart cases with multi-layered analysis, and strategically rebut your opponents. You'll never run out of things to say with our methods of building dense matter using our RREC and actor analysis techniques. This guide teaches you how to prepare for a debate and what to do, down to the minute of every speech, with speech checklists, marking rubrics, and even a handy speaker style grid. Hear how great debate speeches SHOULD sound with case studies and scores of examples from real debate topics. Then try your hand at one of the many practice exercises and games for individual speakers and for debate teams. Whether you're a brand new speaker looking to learn the basics, or an experienced speaker looking for advanced strategic debate skills, this book has plenty to teach you.