Debate tips, strategy guides, and platform insights.
Learn framing in debate — how to control what the round is about, why it wins ballots, and the specific moves competitive debaters use to set the terms.
How to disagree without being disagreeable: techniques debaters use to argue productively, stay civil, and actually change minds.
How to write an opening statement that frames the debate, signposts contentions, and sets up rebuttal. Structure, examples, and a fill-in template.
The 15 most common debate mistakes: dropped arguments, weak warrants, poor rebuttals, and a specific fix for each one from a debate coach.
Learn how to give a persuasive speech step by step: pick a claim, build the case, open strong, deliver well, and close with a call to action.
How to moderate a debate: set clear rules, keep strict time, ask questions that create clash, and stay neutral. A practical guide for first-time moderators.
Master the presentation skills that move audiences: structure, delivery, slide design, and Q&A. A practical, debate-tested guide for anyone who presents.
Twelve elevator pitch examples across founders, job seekers, and students, with structural breakdowns of what makes each one work and how to write your own.
Learn the Socratic method: how to use targeted questions to expose contradictions, control debates, and win arguments without ever making a claim of your own.
Complete guide to the rules of debate: speaking order, time limits, what arguments are allowed, debate etiquette, and how judges decide a winner.
How to write a persuasive essay that actually persuades: structure, argument selection, evidence, rhetoric, and a worked example from a debate coach.
How to be a good debater: the 7 trainable skills that separate strong debaters from loud ones, the order to build them in, and how to practice each.
Steelmanning means answering the strongest version of your opponent's argument. Learn what it is, why it wins debates, and how to do it well.
The straw man fallacy explained — clear definition, real examples, and how to spot and counter it in a debate or argument without getting derailed.