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.