Assignment Description: Part 1 The Affirmative Case Brief
The affirmative case brief should accurately reflect the arguments and evidence used in the affirmative case speech. Click here to view a sample affirmative case brief.
The overarching goal of the brief should be to support the resolution.
The affirmative case brief should be organized by contentions. The brief should have a minimum of one harms contention, one inherency contention, one plan, and one solvency contention. Each contention should be supported by cards.
Each card should have a tagline, full citation, and evidence underlined for use in a debate.
Place your YouTube video speech link at the top of your brief before you submit your brief
Assignment Description: Part 2 The Affirmative Case Speech
This is a 5 minute affirmative case speech in support of the resolution. See Mikes sample speech in the module.
Case Speech Requirements:
The affirmative case must meet the prima facie case requirements. There should be a minimum of a 4 contentions: Harms, Inherency, Plan, and Solvency. Students may choose to read their case as a script; students will still be expected to deliver the speech effectively to the audience with vocal variation.
Evidence Requirements:
Each contention should be supported with appropriate claims and evidence. The affirmative speaker should verbally cite their evidence by saying the authors name and the date of publication for the evidence. The affirmative speaker may add author expert qualifications if the qualifications are relevant to the debate.
Evidence can be directly quoted or paraphrased by the speaker. All evidence referenced in the speech must match evidence submitted for the affirmative case brief.
Speakers can use examples or analogies without citing evidence but such evidence may not be given as much weight as other types of evidence.