English Debate Reflection

Yesterday my group and I had to argue why the world should not have one world currency. We were opposition and my members were; Mario, Radi and Jason. On the affirmative side we had; Alisya, Laras, Aca and Albern. In my point of view our team had planned out how the debate would go but since we all got a bit nervous it didn’t go like we had planned. But overall my team and I were pretty organized. I was the second speaker and my point was that you would have to divide many tasks and that could lead to more problems.

My team had four members and one of them did the rebuttal. So we had to convince the audience with three arguments. Our arguments were structured from the strongest to the weakest. Which would make the audience listen to the first one to the last one. The evidence and facts to support my assertion were taken from different websites. And I think I could’ve put more facts since I only put like two. This would not be enough to actually convince the audience to choose our team. It also depends on what the human mind believes as a fact.

I believe that my team argued the case well but we could’ve done better. Since some of us forgot words or even paragraphs. There should be done more practicing with the team. I think we pointed out our argument very well and detailed. I think we could practice more so we would not skip anything we were supposed to say. And we would not fall over our words. And for the preparation of the debate, I think we used more time for researching than actually practicing the debate itself and our arguments.

I think we made use of Ethos/Pathos and Logos but not in a very strong way. I don’t think that we made use of Pathos, since we didn’t do anything relative to that. Whenever doing a debate Ethos is the strongest persuasive technique since you have to persuade the audience. In my opinion the group that argued about the death penalty for drug traffickers were very good. Both of them were good but in my opinion the affirmative side used Ethos in a better way.

For an overall final grade out of the three criteria I was being assessed on I think that I would’ve gotten a 16 out of the 21 points I could get.