RE: Requesting Resources and Instructions
September 7, 2016 at 9:20 am
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2016 at 9:23 am by Alex K.)
Hi there!
I believe a phone software is a bit too slow and cumbersome to efficiently take notes for debates . Practising with legal pad and a few sheets of paper seems more useful to me. For doing more elaborate research, your PC should already have everything you need to get organized. Make a nice directory structure
C:\Documents\debates\NuclearPower\arguments_for.doc
C:\Documents\debates\NuclearPower\materials\
etc.
As for training, I think doing actual debating is best for learning it. Maybe there is a debate club near you.
Watch many good debaters online and take notes what they do, how they approach the arguments. Which issues do they raise, how do they group their arguments. You can basically watch a debate and take a blank piece of paper and write down summaries of the respective arguments and rebuttals given in the various blocks, and link them with lines.
You can watch a debate between, e.g. William Lane Craig and someone else, and try to write your own rebuttals to what WLC says.
Exercise 1: In each segment of WLC, point out 3 informal logical fallacies or cheap rhetorical sleights-of-hand
No, seriously, get acquainted with the informal logical fallacies, and try to identify them in what people in online or TV debates say.
I believe a phone software is a bit too slow and cumbersome to efficiently take notes for debates . Practising with legal pad and a few sheets of paper seems more useful to me. For doing more elaborate research, your PC should already have everything you need to get organized. Make a nice directory structure
C:\Documents\debates\NuclearPower\arguments_for.doc
C:\Documents\debates\NuclearPower\materials\
etc.
As for training, I think doing actual debating is best for learning it. Maybe there is a debate club near you.
Watch many good debaters online and take notes what they do, how they approach the arguments. Which issues do they raise, how do they group their arguments. You can basically watch a debate and take a blank piece of paper and write down summaries of the respective arguments and rebuttals given in the various blocks, and link them with lines.
You can watch a debate between, e.g. William Lane Craig and someone else, and try to write your own rebuttals to what WLC says.
Exercise 1: In each segment of WLC, point out 3 informal logical fallacies or cheap rhetorical sleights-of-hand
No, seriously, get acquainted with the informal logical fallacies, and try to identify them in what people in online or TV debates say.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
