Gay Adoption Essay

The topic that I was assigned was the affirmative side of gay adoption and initially I thought it would be a nightmare to defend. The only background knowledge that I had on the subject was that it was becoming a more common thing. It was also hard to defend because I was for gay adoption before I was assigned this role. So the question I kept asking my self was how to defend a topic from a different perspective then I am for. Another concern I came across in this topic was trying to stay away from religious standpoints on the topic and using factual information. After some hours of research online I was able to find factual evidence to support my reasoning why gay adoption would be a bad choice. Most of the information that would pop up was opinion or religious views on the matter. Then I stumbled across a new perspective from a social science a psychological stand point, that had studies and factual information to back their theories up. When I was constructing this debate I wanted to use no emotional appeals because the other team would have been able to state that the claims I was making are opinion base and not factual. So I only used factual evidence and renowned sources such as psychologist. 2. I think everyone on my team contributed equally to the debate and all brought their A game. We established a plan to equally split the workload, so no one was overwhelmed with too much work. Everyone did their own research and was given specific parts to go over in the speech so it did not sound so repetitive. I think we all had good information that was presented in our debate and that it was unfair how everyone attacked James. No one gave the poor kid a chance to answer a question and kept asking more and more as he tried answering one. Everyone came to the debate prepared to fulfill their assigned …show more content…
I really wasn’t concerned about the debate being timed at all because I knew opening statements were 5 minutes and knew I could deliver a very good argument in 5 minutes. Also it helped timing myself and getting ready for the presentation. I was able to present everything I wanted to in the presentation with the time limit. I would have stuck with the opening statements because I feel like I was a stronger speaker then anyone in my group. So I thought I could present our claims more effectively. I was able to cite and back up all factual claims that I made in my presentation. The other team tried disproving them when they found my sources. I think if I included false claims that were made by the other team could have made my opening statement stronger. Also I could have gone into a little bit more detail with some of my key points that I discussed in my presentation. I think also that I was speaking to fast when I was …show more content…
They used more emotionally and moral proof to try and persuade the audience. I think it was not effective because they made claims based on opinions and emotions. They really didn’t name any sources in their presentation that I can remember. I was unable to predict their arguments because they were not factual for the most part. According to the scores ours came off more factual and effective than theirs. Their weakness in the position was the claims that they made were opinionated and