Project Gutenberg #13089
The Making of Arguments
J. H. Gardiner
1912A guide to defining issues, gathering evidence, testing reasoning, adapting to an audience, organizing a case, and debating persuasively.
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the propositions in Exercise 4, with a tentative assignment of points to three debaters on a side.
8. Draw up a set of instructions to judges for an intercollegiate or interscholastic debate, so framed as to produce a decision on the points which seem to you the most important.
9. Prepare yourself for a five-minute extemporaneous speech on a subject on which you have written an argument.
10. Name three questions on which you could not, without violence to your convictions, argue on more than one side.