Discovering the World Through Debate

A Practical Guide to Educational Debate for Debaters, Coaches and Judges

• Author(s): Robert Trapp, William Driscoll, Joseph Zompetti,
• Publisher: IDEA
• Pages: 258
• ISBN_10: 1932716068
  ISBN_13: 9781932716061
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric , Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech & Pronunciation , Political Science / World / General ,

Description:... "Discovering the World through Debate provides a practical guide to educational debate in an international setting. It offers a comprehensive introduction to the Karl Popper debate format and presents in-depth, step-by-step information on how to prepare and run a debate event." "The third edition has been completely revised and expanded to meet the needs of students who are ready to progress to new and more complex levels of argumentation and debate. New chapters on argumentation promote a more complete examination of the process of argument construction and provide a thorough discussion of constructing arguments for and against various kinds of debate propositions. As in previous editions, the book presents practical illustrations to help users understand complex concepts."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved