📅 5-Week Plan With Heavy Practice
✅ Week 1: 💡 Foundations of Argumentation
- 🔍 What makes a solid argument vs emotional noise
- 📝 Elements: claims, warrants, evidence, impact
- 🎯 Building your “argument tree” for clarity
- Practice: Construct & defend a basic claim in small groups.
✅ Week 2: ✍ Structuring Cases & Strategic Positioning
- 📝 Affirmative vs negative cases — finding strategic angles
- 🚀 Pre-empting opposition: framing your narrative before they do
- 💬 Learning to prioritize impacts (short vs long term, local vs global)
- Practice: Draft a 3-point debate case & anticipate counters.
✅ Week 3: 🎤 Rebuttal, Crossfire & Spontaneous Speech
- 🔄 How to listen sharply & detect flaws in opponent logic
- 🧭 Quick structuring of 60-second on-the-spot refutations
- 📝 Cross-ex questions that corner, clarify, or reveal gaps
- Practice: Timed 1-min rebuttal drills & mini-crossfire sessions.
✅ Week 4: 🚀 Style, Rhetoric & High-Pressure Delivery
- 🗣 Using analogies, humor, irony, and rhetorical questions
- 🚀 Managing tone: forceful vs friendly vs moral authority
- 📝 Handling interruptions, emotional spikes, or audience bias
- Practice: Deliver a closing 2-min summation with high rhetorical flair.
✅ Week 5: 🏆 Full-Format Mock Debates & Evaluation
- 🎤 Participate in structured debates (BP / Lincoln Douglas / MUN style)
- 📹 Recorded for critique: logical flow, delivery, impact, charisma
- 📝 Individual rubrics + top 10 personal improvement strategies.
✅ EXAMPLES, TRAINING VIDEOS & CASE STUDIES
🎬 Includes:
- 📺 Dissection of world-class debates (Harvard, Oxford, political, TV)
- 📝 Model flow charts & impact matrices
- 🎥 Style studies: Obama vs Churchill vs courtroom vs panel TV formats
✅ ROLE PLAY, MOCK SESSIONS & BUDDYING
- 🎭 Weekly small-group practice with rotating affirm/neg roles
- 📝 Develop your personal “debate prep notebook” for repeated scenarios
- 🎤 Crossfire rotations to train handling tough, rapid-fire queries.
✅ BENCHMARKING EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT
🏆 In the final showcase:
- 📊 Scored on logic, refutation strength, stage control, emotional calibration & lasting impression.
- 📜 Receive a Personal Debate Mastery Report + strategic roadmap for competitions or panels.
- 🎖 Earn your Debating & Argumentation Skills Excellence Certificate