Characterisations & Framing - Advanced Training Debate Workshop: Week 4

Presentation by Jacklin Kwan and Lucie Slamova. With thanks to Areeb from Sheffield Debating for helping out. Delivered over Zoom for the Manchester Debating Union on 19/10/2020.

You can find a PDF of the presentation on the slides & recordings database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...


0:00 - Start
1:10 - What are characterisations and framing?
2:49 - Why you should do them (well)
6:10 - Principles of characterisations
16:08 - What to characterise
18:40 - Structuring characterisations
23:40 - Example: Kazakhstan motion
29:00 - Employing characterisations
32:10 - Exercise: Sexual education motion
41:15 - Rebutting characterisations
47:04 - Characterisations as a winning strategy


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