Today’s criminal justice system does good than harm

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Writing Your Arguments:
Individually, students prepare two arguments –
1) An Affirmative claim supported by evidence and reasoning (agree with the resolution)
2) A Negative claim supported by evidence and reasoning (disagree with resolution)
Parts of your argument
Claim:
Your claim should be a debatable assertion that’s concise and attention-grabbing, and clearly related to proving or disproving the resolution
Evidence:
EACH debater must cite 2-4 sources verbally and include them in their typed arguments, most importantly the DATE published or accessed, and the name of the PUBLICATION (ie: name of the website, magazine, journal, book, documentary in which it was found).
Be sure to verbally cite them, and also write them in-text in the body of your case as seen in the example.
Lastly, attach a work cited page with all of your sources.
Reasoning:
Debaters should use forms of logic detailed in the logical analysis toolkit
to show how their evidence supports their claim.
Rebuttal and Refutation
Be sure to paraphrase at least one of your opponents claims, and offer a counter to it.
This may include challenging the form of reasoning they are using, the strength of their claim,
the relevance and recency of their evidence, or their argument’s relevance to the actual debate resolution.
The more you can weigh your opponents’ arguments against yours and show yours is more significant, the better!
If you are on the negative team, you should offer refutation of the other team in your first speech
In the second speech, both teams should reaffirm their initial arguments while continuing to counter their opponents.
Writing Your Arguments:
Individually, students prepare two arguments –
1) An Affirmative claim supported by evidence and reasoning (agree with the resolution)
2) A Negative claim supported by evidence and reasoning (disagree with resolution)
Parts of your argument
Claim:
Your claim should be a debatable assertion that’s concise and attention-grabbing, and clearly related to proving or disproving the resolution
Evidence:
EACH debater must cite 2-4 sources verbally and include them in their typed arguments, most importantly the DATE published or accessed, and the name of the PUBLICATION (ie: name of the website, magazine, journal, book, documentary in which it was found).
Be sure to verbally cite them, and also write them in-text in the body of your case as seen in the example.
Lastly, attach a work cited page with all of your sources.
Reasoning:
Debaters should use forms of logic detailed in the logical analysis toolkit
to show how their evidence supports their claim.
Rebuttal and Refutation
Be sure to paraphrase at least one of your opponents claims, and offer a counter to it.
This may include challenging the form of reasoning they are using, the strength of their claim,
the relevance and recency of their evidence, or their argument’s relevance to the actual debate resolution.
The more you can weigh your opponents’ arguments against yours and show yours is more significant, the better!
If you are on the negative team, you should offer refutation of the other team in your first speech
In the second speech, both teams should reaffirm their initial arguments while continuing to counter their opponents.