Workshops are held in Law Lecture Theatre 2, every Wednesday, 2pm until 4pm. However they will not be running during summer term. Please check the Facebook group to see if any informal debates have been planned.
What happens in the workshops?
- Practice debating
- Learn skills to improve your debating
- Acquire general knowledge to improve your arguments
Come along to a Wednesday workshop and you can improve your debating and public speaking. You are more than welcome to join in a debate, or otherwise just sit back and watch. We have a training session of half an hour at the beginning where we will go over the basics of debating. This will be followed by a debate in which anyone can participate. If you prefer you can judge. This will then be followed by some advice for how to improve.
We regularly then go to Joes Bar after the workshop to relax and chat.
What’s it going to be like?
In the first few weeks of debating you may be worried about speaking infront of people on subjects you don’t know. Firstly, you will have time to prepare, where you can think of your arguments and prepare your speech. Other debaters are always happy to help you with ideas as well. Most importantly, we’ve all been there, we’ve all had experiences of not knowing what to say. After a few weeks your confidence will improve along with your knowledge of how to argue and structure your speeches. It really is a case of practice makes perfect, and the more you stick at it the better you will be!
It is a two ways process
The person running the workshop would like to know what you think of the session as well. Any constructive comment will help us improve future sessions. Please take a few minute to complete the feedback.
If you have any topic that you want us to cover, please do also tell us.
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Workshop 1: Intro to debating (Bryn & Tim)
Workshop 2: Style and Structure (Matt)
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