Is Television a Bad Influence? (What Do You Think?)

The aim of these books is to teach students how to think not what to think. By providing case studies, historical context and individual opinions, but not a specific right and wrong, these books encourage readers to think and express themselves independently. Each topic also acts as a springboard for a discussion of related issues. A range of viewpoints encourage critical thinking, and simple activities and exercises provide practical advice and examples of critical and creative thinking skills. These books include a mixture of text types, including recounts, reports discussions and persuasion texts.

Kate Shuster

Raintree Paperbacks

This text is designed to provide a foundation for effective participation in academic parliamentary debate competition. It explores contemporary parliamentary debate formats and also includes arguments, debate tactics and practice exercises.

Art, Argument, and Advocacy: Mastering Parliamentary Debate

Business & Money

Economics

International Debate Education Association

This is the first parliamentary debate textbook for secondary school students. The text is designed to provide a theoretical and practical foundation for effective participation in parliamentary debate in competition or in the classroom. It provides comprehensive instruction, offering a review of argument construction and extension, case development, refutation of argument claims and evidence, and persuasive speaking. The text includes sample arguments, debate tactics, and practice exercises of value to both novice and experienced debaters.

On That Point!: An Introduction to Parliamentary Debate

Education & Teaching

John Meany

Schools & Teaching

Encourages critical thinking and debate by providing case studies, historical contexts, and individual opinions on each issue. Readers are encouraged to think and express themselves independently, evaluatively, and critically. At the end, readers are left to make up their own minds, having acquired transferable skills such as the ability to distinguish fact from opinion, weigh the strength of other people's arguments, and recognize other people's assumptions.

What Do You Think?

ANDREW LANGLEY

Neil, Morris

Kelley Bieringer

Teen & Young Adult

Heinemann

Social Issues

Heinemann/Raintree

Debate and public speaking are of extraordinary value to students in the high school. Participation in debating can boost student self-confidence, accelerate learning across the curriculum, and facilitate greatly improved critical thinking and oral communication skills. Speak Up! is a primer for beginning and intermediate students participating in class and contest debates. Designed to support the Public Debate Program, it offers students clear, concise information on public speaking and debating. Combining the practical and theoretical, the text teaches students about verbal and nonverbal communication, how to research and present an argument, how to answer arguments, how to develop debate strategies and how to conduct a formal debate. Exercises following each section give students hands-on experience with each topic.

Speak Up!

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

IDEA Publications

"Combining the practical and theoretical, Speak Out! teaches students the basics of public speaking, argumentation, and research, and helps them prepare for debate competitions and classroom debates. Exercises give students hands-on experience with important topics."

Speak Out! Debate and Public Speaking in the Middle Grades

Intl Debate Education Assn

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