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Judging
Policy Debate Step 1:
Policy-CX Debate Description Let’s
start by getting a basic understanding of Policy-CX debate. What
is Policy Debate? Policy
debate involves --two
teams of two people --one
team, the affirmative, supports a topic (the resolution) usually advocating a
change in U.S. policy. --the
other team, the negative, rejects the affirmative case What
Topic are they debating? HS
Policy-CX: NFL HS CX Topic CEDA-NDT
Topic: CEDA-NDT Topics Wikipedia What
are the times for the debates? ·
8 (HS) or
9 (College) minute constructives ·
each
followed by 3 minute cross-examination periods ·
5 (HS) or
6 (College) minute rebuttals ·
Between
speeches, 5 to 10 minutes of preparation time (for the whole debate) for each
team. Judges
usually give hand signals or out loud signals to indicate how much time
remains during each speech. Usually, debaters also time themselves. Make
sure they don’t talk faster than you want . . . Policy-CX
debaters talk _very_ quickly. If you are a less experienced judge or you just
want the debaters to speak at a slower rate—TELL THEM VERY CLEARLY AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE DEBATE: “I’m a judge who wants you to speak at a
conversational rate of speed—don’t talk fast; I won’t follow it.” “I’m
a judge with experience but I prefer that you speak no more than 75% of
national circuit fast rate of speaking.” Go to Step 2: Giving Feedback to the Debaters Xx readers, ignore this—it is for jim What arguments will they make? Xx oh my stars . . . |
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