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Art, Argument & Advocacy
Mastering Parliamentary Debate
by John Meany and Kate Shuster
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Meany is the Director of Forensics, Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. He directs international faculty debate training and student debating workshops in the United States and abroad and authored the first parliamentary debate primer in the United States.
Kate Shuster is the Program Director, Seattle Debate Foundation, Seattle, Washington. A former National Debate Champion at Emory University, she has coached five debate teams to US national championships. A lecturer in public speaking, parliamentary debate, and argument theory, she has trained national and international students and faculty.
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK
Offers a theoretical and practical foundation for effective participation in academic debate competition, as well as public debate and discussion events. Although the text draws attention to practice in the American intercollegiate parliamentary debate format, the critical thinking, public speaking, advanced listening and note taking, argumentation, and refutation skills discussed are helpful to those participating in other formal and informal debating situations. The text offers a comprehensive examination of the tools of effective debating, including argumentation anticipation, construction, fallacies, extension, and significance issue research, case development, critical refutation of assumptions and evidence, and opportunity cost theory. The new edition carefully considers advancements in parliamentary debate theory and contemporary practice and adds substantial information on the techniques of effective public speaking.
Publication Date:
0-9702130-7-7 Paperback $25.95
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