Policy Debate Outline
PRELIMINARY
- Introduction
- Catchy quote, statistic or phrase thingy
- Introduce self and partner
- State the resolution
- Definitions
CASE
Contentions (Possible outline)
- Contention 1 Overview of the problem – why should we care?
- Statement (from you) of why we should do something
- Stats or Quotes
- State or Quotes
- Concluding statement from you
- Contention 2 Show that the problem is so severe we need to take action now
- Statement (from you) of how bad things are
- Stats or Quotes
- State or Quotes
- Concluding statement from you
- Contention 3 Show what will happen if this situation isn’t fixed
-
Statement (from you) of the doom and gloom to be
- Stats or Quotes
- State or Quotes
- Concluding statement from you
- Other contentions – various reasons we should do stuff
PLAN
- Plank 1 Short explanation of what the plan will do
- Plank 2 Funding
- Plank 3 Enforcement
- Etc…
(You won’t have time for this in the 1AC, but it’s good for the 2AC)
- Advantage #? The good stuff that will come from your plan
-
Statement (from you) of why we should do something
- Stats or Quotes
- State or Quotes
- Concluding statement from you
CONCLUSION (Sum and tie to intro)