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How to Write a Graduation Speech
http://collegeuniversity.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_write_a_graduation_speech
How to Write a Graduation Speech

Speech and Debating Videos
http://www.schooltube.com/page1393040.aspx
Speech and Debating Videos

IDEA Debating Standards
http://www.idebate.org/standards/
IDEA Debating Standards
These pages display the existing IDEA Standards. The Standards are displayed as both HTML documents and are accessible via this page that serves as the table of contents. The appropriate PDF versions of the documents can be downloaded via those pages.

Holding Your Own Debate
http://www.actdu.org.au/archives/actein_site/owndebate_.html
Holding Your Own Debate
In order to hold your own debate you will need to have the following. If you click on any of these it will take you to a small explanatory note about each concept..

International Debate Education Association
http://www.idebate.org/
International Debate Education Association
The International Debate Education Association (IDEA) develops, organizes and promotes debate and debate-related activities in communities throughout the world.
Established in 1999 to coordinate pilot debate programs initiated by The Open Society Institute, IDEA acts as an independent membership organization of national debate clubs, associations, programs, and individuals who share a common purpose: to promote mutual understanding and democracy globally by supporting discussion and active citizenship locally.

Debating SA
http://www.debatingsa.com.au/
Debating SA
Debating SA is a not-for-profit association that operates across South Australia to allow students from schools and community organisations to participate in an education-based activity that promotes the development of communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

Australia-Asia Debating Guide
http://www.adf.asn.au/debating-guide.pdf
Australia-Asia Debating Guide
Published by the Australian Debating Federation, the Australia-Asia Debating Guide is the official handbook and provides the rules and conventional debating wisdom for Australian competitions.
The purpose of this guide is to provide some objectivity about what constitutes effective debating. It allows debaters and adjudicators to hold certain expectations about how to prepare, present and judge debates.

Online Debate Videos
http://tinyurl.com/kxumd
Online Debate Videos ... lots of different topics

Conversational Terrorism
http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html
Conversational Terrorism
Debating tools (maybe)

Thirty - Eight Ways to Win an Argument
http://www.searchlores.org/schopeng.htm
Thirty - Eight Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's "The Art of Controversy"

World Debate Institute
http://debate.uvm.edu/wdi.html
World Debate Institute

Videos on Debating
http://debate.uvm.edu/learnld.html
Videos on Debating

Rules of Engagement for Classroom Debates
http://tinyurl.com/944gd
Rules of Engagement for Classroom Debates

Practical Ideas for Classroom Debate
http://www.cahssa.org/PDF/SpeakingAcrossTheCurriculumFall2003.pdf
Speaking Across the Curriculum : Practical Ideas for Classroom Debate
The California High School Speech Association

Learning Classic Debate
http://www.mdta.org/pdf/classicdb.pdf
Learning Classic Debate
A Student? Guide to Classic Debate Competition

Code of the Debater
http://debate.uvm.edu/code2001.pdf
Code of the Debater

Guide to Student Debates
http://www.chass.ncsu.edu/livinginourworld/resourcecenter.htm
Guide to Student Debates

Basic Debating Skills.
http://www.stgeorge.freeservers.com/guide_debate.htm
Basic Debating Skills : St George Toastmasters
A debate is, basically, an argument. That is not to say that it is an undisciplined shouting match between parties that passionately believe in a particular point of view. In fact the opposite is true. Debating has strict rules of conduct and quite sophisticated arguing techniques and you will often be in a position where you will have to argue the opposite of what you believe in.