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Summary: Debating a persuasive claim is a arguing one point against another. Learn other situations that apply for debating claims from a communications and public speaking expert in this free instructional video.

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Tracy Goodwin Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is ... read more

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Debating Persuasive Arguments

Hi there, I'm Tracy Goodwin and I'm the red sweater lady. Today we're going to be talking about how to refute persuasive claims. Now this topic can be good for a lot of different things. You might be working on debates in school, or maybe you've become a debater on the debate team. You're going to be doing a lot of refuting of persuasive claims. Or perhaps you are involved in a speech class in which you are doing persuasive speeches and maybe there's going to be question and answer periods, or perhaps you are expected to evaluate a persuasive speaker. What's going to be really important for you, to be able to take a look at their claims and know how to prove whether they are valid. This also happens in the work place a lot as well. Maybe you've given a presentation or you've watched a presentation. What is the company claiming that they're going to do? You might need to have the ability to take a look at what they're saying, and you need to know how to refute this and make sure that what they're saying is really the truth. It can get a little confusing but actually there are some very very simple easy guidelines to follow that will teach you how to refute persuasive claims.

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