Winning Debates: A Guide to Debating in the Style of the World Universities Debating Championships

by Steven Lee Johnson

Winning Debates offers a practical introduction to the World Universities Debating Championships (also known as British Parliamentary or Worlds-style) format, the international standard for academic debating. The text combines a review of the basics of argument theory with an application of those theories to the four-team style of debate, and recommends strategies and tactics for successful debating.Winning Debates provides a coherent, useful vision of debating that will encourage discussion, disagreement, and experimentation from Worlds-style debaters around the globe.

Genres: Nonfiction

230 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2009