Debate Vocabulary Set 1

A priori without appeal to experience Advocacy the position that the affirmative or negative defends Advocacy Shift debater alternating his position form the constructive in a rebutal affirmative the side of the debate that defends the resolution agent of action the power indicated or inferred by the resolution to carry out resolution to carry out resolution action A2 short for answers to awards ceremony an assembly where students are recognized for their performance ballott the written record of the decision in a round big picture a rebuttal strategy that approaches the round from the major ideas and emphasizes a thematic view of each position block multiple prepared responses to an argument blow up making a big deal out of an argument by spending a lot of time on it bracket the group of debaters with the same preliminary round record break to become eligible for elimination rounds brief a prepared argument with evidence and arguments already structured on a page bubble round the round that determines wheter a debater will advance to elimination debates burden of proof the obligation to prove the validity of the side of the resolution taken by teh debater burden of clash the obligation to clash with the opponent, staying with the arguemtn presented by the opponent resolutional burden the obligation to focus the debate on the central questions of the resolution, not wheter the resolution itself is owrthy of debate Case-turn attacking the fundamental assumption of hte affirmative or negtative case Claim a statement or the first step of an argument Comparative advantage a suggestion by a debater that his argument is more beneficial than his opponents Concede to explicitly agree to an opponents argument Conditional a case that only affirms the resolution when certain conditions are present Contention main argument in a constructive speech Counterplan a plan offered by teh negative that is a better solution than the affirmative case Criterion a standarad which explains how the value should be protected, measures whether a sitde protects the value, and evaluates the relevance and importance of an argument Critical theory a general term for new theoretical developments in a variety of fields cross-apply making an argument at one place in a debate and then applying that same argument somewhere else int he debate Cross-examination asking questiosn by one side and answering the questions by the other side Crystallization selection of voting issues and weighing hte round for the judge .. ..