Practice library

The resolution, the two sides, the speech order, and why clash is the point.

Read the wording and work out what each side has to prove.

Turn a topic into a point the audience can accept or reject.

Explain why your evidence actually proves your point.

Set out a case you can defend through cross-ex, rebuttal and closing.

Flow the debate so you know what each speech still has to answer.

Argue both sides through constructives, cross-ex, rebuttals and closings.

Ask a question whose answer you can use in your next speech.

Adjust your questions to the answer they actually gave.

Question the population, method, or inference behind a figure.

Decide what to concede, qualify or push back on when you are being questioned.

Prepare follow-ups for different answers to your first question.