Mastering Competitive Individual Events

Mastering Competitive Individual Events

Grades 10–12

The skills and preparation students need for debate success

Develop the vocabulary and critical thinking skills necessary in multiple debate formats.

The text covers a wide range of competitive debate formats—public forum, Lincoln-Douglas debate, world schools, mock trial, and congressional and parliamentary debate. Inquiry-based exercises involve argumentation, rebuttals, defense, flowing, and research methods.