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Shannon Pappas – Communication Teacher, 2024
This activity aims to assist students with persuasive tactics for argumentative speeches. The activity involves students creating an argumentative speech to defend a hot-take assertion chosen from a list provided by the instructor. In small groups, students will craft an argument supporting their hot-take assertion and present it to the class.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Public Speaking, Speeches, Models
John Keiser – Management Teaching Review, 2024
In-class debates are an effective teaching method to cover contentious subjects. This article presents an experiential exercise in which students participate in debates pertaining to the inherent conflict between businesses' profit motive and the broader interests of society. Included in this article are classroom instructions for the exercise and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Debate, Persuasive Discourse
Hinck, Edward A. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2022
The COVID-19 "pivot" created challenges for instructors in adapting their teaching strategies to the various forms of technology available for virtual delivery. One positive outcome discovered for teaching an introduction to debate class was the use of Blackboard's discussion board feature to assess student learning regarding…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Debate, Introductory Courses
Drury, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter; Paliewicz, Nicholas S.; Drury, Sara A. Mehltretter – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2019
This article assists argumentation and debate instructors in developing courses that provide coverage of foundational concepts while reflecting their own interests. Courses in argumentation and debate also offer instructors an opportunity to teach through applied engagement with contemporary events. We encourage instructors to reflect on the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Debate, Undergraduate Students, Course Descriptions
Mapes, Meggie – Communication Teacher, 2019
Courses: Storytelling, persuasion, gender and communication, argumentation and debate. Objectives: In this essay, I map a unit-specific activity for an undergraduate class in argumentation and debate. I argue for the integration of a trans-affirming pedagogy as a key rhetorical frame in communication studies courses. Such pedagogical commitments…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Persuasive Discourse, Debate, Interpersonal Communication
Duarte Infante, Ángela Vanesa; Fonseca Velandia, Sandra Milena; Ramos Holguín, Bertha – HOW, 2020
This article describes a pedagogical proposal, based on debates, to determine the type of arguments that pre-service English language teachers constructed at a public university in Tunja, Colombia. We implemented a series of debate workshops about educational issues. Thirteen modern languages pre-service teachers in their sixth semester…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Tonkins, Miranda R. – Communication Center Journal, 2019
Flourishing conversations between professionals in the public sphere are creating new opportunities for intercollegiate debate. This desire to expand debate outside of the Communication Studies community pushes the idea of debate beyond its traditional boundaries. Those who have witnessed these attempts to bring more disciplines into the world of…
Descriptors: Debate, Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Manninen, Bertha Alvarez; Mulder, Jack, Jr. – Liberal Education, 2019
The authors, Bertha Alvarez Manninen, a pro-choice associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University, and Jack Mulder Jr., a pro-life professor of philosophy at Hope College in Michigan have argued with each other since graduate school about abortion and other issues, while respecting each other's stances and friendship. In the current…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Debate, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Traga Philippakos, Zoi A. – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2022
The paper explains the role of oral language and dialogic interactions in the development of individual thinking and reasoning processes. Collaborative reasoning and its contribution is explained while examples are shared to illustrate ways to scaffold students' questioning, meaning making, and writing in the context of read alouds during…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Cooperative Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Debate
Peabody, Seth – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2021
This article describes strategies that the author employed to make a general education course titled "Fairy Tales and Folklore" more diverse and inclusive. Students read primary texts and secondary articles as part of ongoing debates, then form their own arguments within the debate, thus coming to understand how fairy tales are embedded…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Fairy Tales, Inclusion, Persuasive Discourse
Aspen Institute, 2020
In this time of deep divisions, many Americans have recognized the need to heal schisms, repair the social fabric, and restore trust and civility in public discourse. The Better Arguments Project is based on the premise that American civic life does not need fewer arguments; it needs Better Arguments. The project stems from the founding idea that…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Communication Skills, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
Daniel, John – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
The vocabulary of higher education is being devalued. The use of "expert" and "elite" as pejorative terms undermines the trust on which successful societies are based. In a "post-factual" society, universities have to re-establish a respect for objective truth and powerful arguments, becoming trust building as well as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Ethics, Expectation, Vocabulary
Field, Kathryn – Gifted Child Today, 2017
Teachers often find it challenging to incorporate higher order thinking skills in ways that both inspire student interest and allow for meaningful differentiation. Structured debate is an activity that can facilitate all of these goals. This article explains, in detail, how debates can be structured to promote a variety of critical thinking skills…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Motivation, Debate, Thinking Skills
Ehrenworth, Mary – Educational Leadership, 2017
With the massive amounts of conflicting information and opinion bombarding us from all sides today, it has never been more important to teach young people to suspend judgment, to weigh evidence, and to consider multiple perspectives. Teaching students the craft of argument writing--not only in language arts classes, but also in social studies,…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Debate, Oral Language
Aspen Institute, 2018
The Better Arguments Project was created to encourage Americans to engage one other in better, more productive debates about core American ideals. The project stems from the foundational premise that America doesn't just contain arguments, America is an argument -- between Federalist and Anti-Federalist worldviews, strong national government and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Communication Skills, Skill Development, Citizenship Education