Analysis template · 27 topics
Debate preparation mind map template
A debate prep mind map for one motion: definitions, your case, the other side's best arguments, rebuttals, evidence, and points of information to ask.
Who it is for
- A school or university debater preparing a motion before a round.
- A student writing an argumentative essay who wants both sides first.
- Anyone getting ready to argue a proposal in a meeting.
How to use it
- Open the template and write the motion in full in the central topic.
- Build the other side's strongest case before your own, so your rebuttals are ready.
- Match each piece of evidence to the argument it supports, then cut what you cannot prove.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Debate prep
- Motion
- The exact wording
- Key terms defined in your favour, fairly
- What each side must prove
- Our case
- Argument one: the principle
- Argument two: the practical effect
- Argument three: who is helped or harmed
- Their case
- Their strongest argument
- Their likely examples
- What they will say about our definitions
- Rebuttals
- Answer to their strongest argument
- Where their examples do not fit
- The question they cannot answer
- Evidence
- Statistics, with source and year
- A real case or story
- An expert view
- Points of information
- Short questions to ask them
- Answers ready for ours
- Summary
- The clash in one sentence
- Why our side wins it
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