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 Literature › Re: Is The Use Of Child Soldiers, A Good Phenomenon Or Not - Nigerian Online Debate by Cuddlemii(op): 8:45pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Since Queen Amina has replaced Queen Victoria, she can ask Cleopatra questions. Then after that, Cleopatra would do the same. Please ladies, we don't have all day. Lets make this vibrant again. Thank! |
| Literature › Re: Is The Use Of Child Soldiers, A Good Phenomenon Or Not - Nigerian Online Debate by Cuddlemii(op): 7:01pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Please, Judges we are waiting for your scores. Email it to the nairaland judges email. Thanks |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 6:56pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
The thread is opened now for discussion, so audience can chat about the debate here and follow the main debate from this link below. Judges please make your choice out of the two opposing presentation and send your choice to me thanks. https://www.nairaland.com/1102291/use-child-soldiers-good-phenomenon#13098239 |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 6:37pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Please, this thread is locked till after the debaters posts their arguments on the main debate thread. Thanks! |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 6:27pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Debaters, please log in with the dummy accounts and log out of your real accounts completely. Thanks |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 6:14pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Sorry for the slight delay, we were waiting for everyone to arrive before we proceed. We will commence at exactly 6:30pm. Debaters, please check your emails for your dummy accounts. Thank you all for your consideration. |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 5:49pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Debaters, please, signify your presence. |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 4:57pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Link to the actual debate on Child Soldiers------->https://www.nairaland.com/1102291/use-child-soldiers-good-phenomenon It will soon be officially opened. The countdown begins |
| Literature › Re: Is The Use Of Child Soldiers, A Good Phenomenon Or Not - Nigerian Online Debate by Cuddlemii(op): 9:55am On Nov 24, 2012*. Modified: 6:21pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Welcome to Nairaland’s Literary & Debating Day – Female Edition! Thank you for coming today to support this cause, it's great to have you all here. My name is Cuddlemii and I am the coordinator of this debate. The purpose of this debate is to contribute to the learning experience of Nairaland members / Viewers, Guests and to explore the Use of Child Soldiers and its effects. I know you're all keen to get started but, before we do, I’ve been asked to make a quick announcement. Please, members of the audience should not comment till they are advised to. Please, follow the instructions & signals from the officials at all times. Thanks for your cooperation. So now, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to declare this impactful debate well and truly open – Do relax and enjoy yourselves. Good evening! |
| Literature › Re: Is The Use Of Child Soldiers, A Good Phenomenon Or Not - Nigerian Online Debate by Cuddlemii(op): 5:28am On Nov 24, 2012*. Modified: 3:53pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
For the debate planning process, rules, structure, phases, judging guidelines, discussions etc, Go on here https://www.nairaland.com/1106641/nairalands-literary-debating-day-female |
| Literature › Re: Is The Use Of Child Soldiers, A Good Phenomenon Or Not - Nigerian Online Debate by Cuddlemii(op): 5:27am On Nov 24, 2012*. Modified: 6:24pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Break - 5 min - 8:45 ---8:50 PM: Break for judges to continue noting down their scores and for the contestants to start composing their final statements. Final statements - 5 min - 8:50---8:55 PM: Contestants would post their final statements on the debate thread at this time Judges Score - 10 min - 8:55---9:05 PM: The next phase will be for the judges to present their scores for each pair debate and give reasons for their scores. Audience Questions 25 min - 9:05 ---9:25 PM: We believe our audience might have a different position and at this point they will be given the chance to have a go at any debating participant to clarify their points or have a discussion with them concerning their arguments. Break - 5 mins: Audience would start composing their votes at this time. Audience Voting: Then the audience will make an open score for one pairing debate and give reasons for the given score. Only members of the audience who registered to Nairaland pre 2011 will have a valid vote, so this means that you must have registered to Nairaland as from 2010 going backward. Break: This period will be used to collate the valid votes. Audience Score: The organizers will collate the scores and announce the final audience choice; this process should last for some minutes or hours and probably the next day (voting). General Reflection: The thread is then thrown open for the general public to discuss and give feedback about the whole process. |
| Literature › Reserved For Audience Voting by Cuddlemii(op): 5:25am On Nov 24, 2012*. Modified: 10:46pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
Audience Voting: The audience will make an open score for one pairing debate and give reasons for the given score. Only members of the audience who registered to Nairaland pre 2011 will have a valid vote, so this means that you must have registered to Nairaland as from 2010 going backward. JUDGING Please, the audience should vote based on at least four criterion listed below: JUDGING GUIDELINES: The judges and audience should freely use any number of criteria listed below to judge the debaters. ANALYSIS: This refers to the ability of the debaters to identify the major issues and arguments pertaining to the proposition or topic. Also, it explains if the debater found the issues that are critical? Do these issues have the potency to decide whether one accepts or rejects the resolution? Does the debater know what he must do to destroy a case or establish one? EVIDENCE: Research plays an important role in the debate process as debaters try to find not only sufficient evidence but also the most potent and relevant evidence that would support their analysis and conclusions. Attention should be paid to the quality of evidence? , Is there too much reliance on opinion and not enough on fact? And is the evidence relevant and timely? REASONING: Reasoning refers to how logical, coherent and organized the debater is in presenting her arguments. Does the debater use cogent thinking? How capable is she in drawing logical inferences from existing data? Does she show the capacity to reason for him/herself? REFUTATION: It is important for a debater to refute the arguments presented by the opposing side while at the same time expertly defend his/her own case. Refutation is defined as the process of weakening or destroying an opponent’s arguments. Does the debater recognize the crucial areas of agreement and disagreement? How effective is the debater in destroying or weakening an opponent’s argument? Does the debater know what to do to destroy a case or establish one? Did he or she accurately identified opponents major arguments; refuted arguments fairly, specifically, clearly, and point by point; reasonable, thoughtful and persuasive. PERSUASIVENESS: To present a complete and convincing case; well-constructed and compelling arguments: theme and arguments should be consistent and easily understood. Does the person do a good job at tying everything together to make a sound, logical, argument that could convince someone that their stance is correct? DELIVERY: Delivery refers to the debater’s skill in writing, persuasion, and practical argumentation. Does the delivery enhance the argumentation? Is it intelligible, interesting and persuasive? Are good public writing techniques utilized? LOGICAL ARGUMENT: Does the debater state logically every step of the logic that leads to the choice of argument, fact or reason? FACTUAL BACKUP: Does the debater give facts from credible sources, and connect them with their stance on the topic? CONTENT: Content should be of high quality and sound argument, imaginative and coherent, good points backed up by examples or evidence. Deals fully with the subject and is challenging for the other side to respond to. Also it should contain definitions, facts, quotations, statistics and analogies. POINTS OFFERED: Offers salient and effective points which were accepted, remains interested and involved throughout the debate. POINTS RECEIVED: Confident and effective dealing with points; either answers the point successfully or successfully dismisses it without losing any fluency. ARGUMENTS: The positive arguments introduced to support the proposition, the objections to the positive argument and to the proposition itself. The responses to those criticisms introduced by the opposition and the judges. ORGANIZATION: The presentation has a well-planned structure, unified speech and cases which are clear. The theme is understandable and goes with supportive arguments and points which are presented in a meaningful way. It should at least be made up of all or some of the following parts; purpose, introduction, development, sequence, arguments, transitions, conclusion and summarization DEFINITIONS, EXPLANATIONS AND EVIDENCE: All terms, points and arguments were clearly defined and explained. Arguments supported by credible evidence and strong examples. CROSS-EXAMINATION: Asked probing questions and answered persuasively; always courteous and polite, not rude or pushy. POISE: Does the debater have the following qualities; dignity, confident, consistency, courtesy and demonstrates integrity in addition to adequate knowledge of the subject. |
| Literature › Re: Is The Use Of Child Soldiers, A Good Phenomenon Or Not - Nigerian Online Debate by Cuddlemii(op): 5:13am On Nov 24, 2012*. Modified: 6:22pm On Nov 24, 2012 |
DEBATE TIMELINE FOR CHILD SOLDIERS Phase: Time Allowance: Time Period The Constructive Phase - 10 min - 6:30 ---6:40 PM: The constructive phase will be the first action where each participants will paste their opening statements, arguments and closing remarks in one presentation of not more than 1000 words. The best speeches are moved to the debate proper if there are more than the required numbers of participants. Cross-Examination Phase - 5 min - 6:40 --- 6:45 PM: The next phase is the cross-examination phase where each participant will have a chance to question the other participants about the presented evidence in their speech if there is any. The participant will have the opportunity to clarify or remove this evidence if they cannot be adequately proven. The judges also can question all participants about the facts, data's and evidence in their presentations. Elimination Phase - 5 min - 6:45--- 6:50 PM: In this phase, Judges would indicate their choice of the presentation from the opposing side that should qualify to the main debate and send their choice to the judges email address. The chairman will announce the winner on the thread and the signal to start composing the questions will be given after that. Break - 10 min - 6:50---7:00 PM: This will be the time for a little break in order for both contestants to compose the questions for their opponent. Rebuttal Phase 1 - 40 min - 7:00 --- 7:40 PM: The rebuttals should be short, precise and must not contain any new arguments or points. The opposing side should post their question to the supporting side There will be two or more chances to rebut the statements made by the other side after the first reply and this same process is repeated when the other party are defending their own arguments. The chances can go on to exceed the limit stated above if the time for that phase has not been exhausted. Break - 10 mins - 7:40 ---7:50 PM: This will be another break for the judges to note down their scores of both contestants from the previous phase Rebuttal Phase 2 - 40 min - 7:50 ---8:30 PM: The rebuttals should be short, precise and must not contain any new arguments or points. The supporting side should at this stage throw their questions to the opposing side There will be two or more chances to rebut the statements made by the other side after the first reply The chances can go on to exceed the limit stated above if the time for that phase has not been exhausted. Break - 5 min - 8:30 --- 8:35 PM: Another break for the judges to note down their scores for the previous phase and compose some questions for the contestants if they have any. Judges Questions - 10 min - 8:35 ---8:45 PM: Judges would throw one or two questions to the contestants at this stage of the debate and the debaters would endeavor to answer all of it. |
| Literature › Re: Is The Use Of Child Soldiers, A Good Phenomenon Or Not - Nigerian Online Debate by Cuddlemii(op): 5:13am On Nov 24, 2012*. Modified: 11:02am On Nov 24, 2012 |
DEBATE STRUCTURE -The debate will be segmented into different phases and we are hoping it should last for about three hours maximum or less. -The debaters will be selected from those who have indicated interest and they will be asked to prepare a compelling speech that either argues in support or against the resolution or topic. -The affirmative side argues in support of the resolution and tries to prove it correct. -The negative side argues against the resolution and tries to prove it incorrect. -The number of participants is not yet determined but we are hoping to have two each on both side of the argument and if we have more than two participants then the best two articles will be selected for the debate proper. -The debating resolution will be presented by the organizers and stated in the positive sense. -Exactly 6pm the debate thread will be opened. -We expect each participant to have composed his arguments before 6pm, so all the participants are to post their arguments between 6.00pm and 6.10pm *The chairman will signal the beginning of each stage *No member of the audience will be allowed to post between 6pm and 8:35pm *Any post from the audience will be hidden during this time -Each of the judges will mail or his/her scores of all the participants to the chairman who will collate the scores and post the final scores on the thread if we are going the elimination route or they can as well post it on the debate thread. -Only the selected candidates will proceed to the next round after the elimination phase. -We have created dummy accounts for all debaters. The debaters won't be debating with their handles/monikers but the ones that will be assigned to them by us. This handles will be sent to the debaters few minutes before the debate starts. -That way, the judges & the audience will vote based on the quality, credibility & standard of the write-ups/deliveries. This will also eliminate the issue of bias, favoritism, connections(man know man) & votes based on beauty/popularity. -After the debate is over(.i.e scores have been collated), the debaters will return as themselves and announce by themselves, the handle/moniker they used in debating. |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 11:54pm On Nov 23, 2012 |
freecocoa: what color am I supposed to write in?Sorry I am just seeing this now. I will send you an email. Thanks |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 5:56pm On Nov 23, 2012 |
firestar: So the scales are unbalanced yes?Yes, but the difference isn't much. |
| Literature › Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by Cuddlemii(op): 4:03am On Nov 23, 2012 |
[quote author=Mynd_44]Cuddles I see you viewing oo. Y'all good morning[/quote]Lolz Morning! How are you? Dont worry, after Sunday, I full ground |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 1:45pm On Nov 22, 2012 |
My Lovely Debaters, please, don't announce the sides you are debating on this thread. We need you to be coded from now on, to get fair votes  |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 1:21pm On Nov 22, 2012 |
double post |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 1:20pm On Nov 22, 2012 |
ANNOUNCEMENT CONTD: After the debate is over(.i.e scores have been collated), the debaters will return as themselves and announce by themselves, the handle/moniker they used in debating. |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 1:13pm On Nov 22, 2012*. Modified: 1:30am On Feb 20, 2013 |
ANNOUNCEMENT: Remember, we promised that, we had a mechanism to curb rigging & cheating? The mechanism is simple, we have created dummy accounts for all debaters. The debaters won't be debating with their handles/moniker but the ones that will be assigned to them by us. These handles will be sent to the debaters few minutes before the debate starts. That way, the judges & the audience will vote based on the quality, credibility & standard of the write-ups/deliveries. This will also eliminate the issue of bias, favoritism, connections(man know man) & votes based on beauty/popularity. I hope the Judges, Debaters & Audience cooperates with us on this initiative. Please, vote wisely!  |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 11:11am On Nov 22, 2012 |
cdamsel: [/color]bt dats wat I did na,bt e get d colour way dey inbtw d codes ohhh [color=#990000]Sent you a pm or how to do it |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 9:19am On Nov 22, 2012 |
FOR MOBILE/SMART PHONE USERS: Color fonts should work on your phones. Depending on the kind of phones you are using though. That been said, there is no harm in trying it out now to see if it will works, so,we can take the next course of action on that. Members of the project team use their phones most of the time and using font colors has been very easy for them. Waiting for your feedback. Thanks! |
| Literature › Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by Cuddlemii(op): 3:14am On Nov 22, 2012 |
firestar:hmmm, i like a lady that takes care of her man U need to cool that temperature |
| Literature › Re: Bloggers: Shall We Meet Here? by Cuddlemii: 3:30pm On Nov 21, 2012 |
Abdul Fattah: JUST REALISED A THREAD FOR THIS PURPOSE IS ALREADY EXISTING....Impressive! |
| Literature › Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by Cuddlemii(op): 6:08am On Nov 21, 2012 |
CrazyMan: Good morning all...Hey crazybaby, what's up? You good honey? You good sugar? Brb |
| Literature › Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by Cuddlemii(op): 6:00am On Nov 21, 2012 |
[quote author=Mynd_44]Morning y'all[/quote]Hey baby, whats going on? Will be back, wanna relax a little |
| Literature › Re: Literature/Writing Section's "Chat Central!" by Cuddlemii(op): 2:52am On Nov 20, 2012 |
[quote author=AlterEgo™]***Following*** Mod, sheybi it's shar save to derail, troll and whatever here  There's kuku no particular topic being discussed.  [/quote]Welcome to the land of dreams. Anything & Everything goes. Luckily, we have level headed commentators on here |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 2:30am On Nov 20, 2012 |
Rocktation: God de...I trust you jare. You can do it!  |
| Literature › Re: Nairaland's Literary & Debating Day - Female Edition - "Battle Of Wits" by Cuddlemii(op): 2:28am On Nov 20, 2012 |
Oahray: Sorry, no vex. Was simply curious.Vex? Never! Aren't you enjoying the peace & love? We had to ensure we are smiling all through this thread Anyways, whatever form of participation from you will be appreciated |
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