Public Debate - Terms

Terms

  • Value debate: A value debate is one that is about a specific value, such as individual rights or Justice. In a value debate the teams are expected to argue the importance of concepts and not specifically a policy.
  • Paradigms: The specific likes and dislikes of a Judge
  • Solvency: The extent to which a particular resolution or plan will effect change. If a plan lacks solvency it means that it will not have any kind of positive impact if implemented.
  • Peanut Gallery: the audience (while a cute way to get a short laugh in the round, this term is overused and has racial connotations that one may be well advised to avoid).
  • Voters: Important and central ideas that a Judge should vote on.
  • Plan: The method that will be employed to carry out a resolution.
  • Counter Plan: A plan sometimes presented by the Opposition to counter the Affirmatives plan.
  • Ruining the educational value of a debate: Means that the Affirmative has placed to many restrictions on the topic in a direct attempt to make it difficult for the Opposition to argue against.
  • Flow: A ongoing set of notes that participates in a debate make to keep track of the points that have been made.
  • Road mapping: The outline of the points a speaker will make during their speech given before the speech is given to make Flowing easier.

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