Volume 2
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Debate & Speech
Build argumentation, evidence, and delivery skills across debate formats — Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, British Parliamentary, mock trial, and general public speaking.
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The reading
Reference guides
Evergreen explainers. Read before your next committee.
Debate & Speech GlossaryKey terms and definitions for debate & speech.Debate FundamentalsFormats, flow, judging paradigms, and the skills that transfer across every debate style.Case Construction PlaybookBuild winning cases — framework, contentions, evidence cards, and airtight warranting.Cross-Examination & RebuttalsClash, signposting, refutation techniques, and how to weigh impacts against the other side.Speech Delivery GuidePacing, modulation, stance, and stage presence — how to sound like you own the room.Congressional Debate (NSDA)Legislation, PO duties, precedence/recency, and how to win the chamber's top speaker rankings.Debate Judging ParadigmsTabula Rasa, Stock Issues, Games Player, Communication, Truth-Testing — how every judge actually decides.Extemporaneous Speaking30-minute prep, AGD, three-point analysis, file boxes — the NSDA extemp playbook.Parliamentary Debate (NPDA/APDA)Limited prep, motions, points of information, and the parliamentary debate circuit.Mock Trial FundamentalsAMTA and NHSMTC rules, roles, case packet anatomy, and the structure of a trial round.Mock Trial: Direct & CrossOpen-ended directs, leading-question crosses, impeachment, and witness control techniques.Mock Trial: Openings & ClosingsTheory-of-the-case, theme, primacy/recency, and how the best advocates structure arguments to a jury.Mock Trial: Objections Cheat-SheetHearsay, relevance, foundation, leading, speculation — every objection with the rule and the response.
The practice
Courses
Sequenced lessons with graded exercises. Earn XP; climb the leaderboard.
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