Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Parliamentary style debate, colloquially oftentimes just Parliamentary debate, is a formal framework for debate used in debating societies, academic debate events and competitive debate. It has its roots in parliamentary procedure and develops differently in different countries as a result.
British Parliamentary Style. Debating in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is speaking. British Parliamentary style is a major form of academic debate that originated in Liverpool in the mid 1800s. [ 1] It has gained wide support globally and is the official format of the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC).
Parliamentary debate is practiced worldwide and many international variations have been created. The premier event in the world of parliamentary debate is the World Universities Debating Championship. This tournament is conducted in the traditional British Parliamentary style of debate. [52]
www .cusid .ca. The Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate ( CUSID generally) is the national organization which governs all English language competitive university debating and public speaking in Canada. [ 1] It sanctions several official annual tournaments and represents Canadian debating domestically and abroad.
The American Parliamentary Debate Association ( APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States. APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian ...
World Schools Style debate. World Schools Style debating (or WSS) is a combination of the British Parliamentary and Australia-Asian debating formats, designed to meet the needs of the World Schools Debating Championships tournament. Each debate comprises eight speeches delivered by two teams of three members, representing the Proposition and ...
The Harvard College Debate Union competes mostly in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. The HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and ...
Hansard's title page in 1832. Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries. It is named after Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), a London printer and publisher, who was the first official printer to the Parliament at Westminster .