How to get good at debating

How to do it and some common pieces of feedback

Levels of learning skills (luv u James Pan)

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Don't know the skill

Know the skill and still working on it

Doing the skill but having to think about it

Doing the skill without thinking

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Unconscious incompetence

Conscious incompetence

Conscious competence

Unconscious competence

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How to apply this to debating

• Don’t worry about winning during training
• It genuinely could not matter less … no one will care nor keep track

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• Have one thing you want to work on during your speech

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• Tell ur adj!!!

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• Get feedback!!!!!

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• Have a friend help you keep track of improvement

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Common things you will be told to work on and how to work on them - luv u deepak

Case Stuff

1. Asking right questions in prep
1. Read the topic: Policy, Empirical, Regret, Norm
2. Set up and world creation
3. Mechanising
• How to do this, is this a benefit or a harm, probability v likelihood, how to know when you have done enough, intuition pumps, grounding
4. Engaging with all worlds (the comparative)
5. Impacting
• Scale, painting a picture, who will this effect

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Common things you will be told to work on and how to work on them pt2 - still luv u deepak

Rebuttal Stuff

1. Identifying clashes
1. Will have another session on this - but good 2 know
2. Types of rebuttal
• Mitigation, Washing, Refutation, Flipping
3. Engaging in best cases
• Even ifs
4. WEIGHING!!!
• This should also be done in case stuff tbh
• How - within harm/benefit, within clash, conclusionary
• Types - breadth, depth, probability, time frame, actor, exclusivity

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