First Debate Experience

In the last semester, I also take part in a friendly match between UTM Chinese Debate team and SMK Mutiara Rini. This is my first experience on participating a debate competition. The debate title is “the necessary of imposing a higher tax on betting duty” which is referring to the Oregon debate, in which the content should conclude of 25% of evidence, 30% of delivery, 30% of interpellation and 15% of rebuttal. Consisting of 4 people each group, our team is the opposition one while the other team from Mutiara Rini is the proposition. Working as a team, we spend more than 2 month to preparing the debate and even staying late before the day of debate. My first debate experience is quite meaningful to me, where I get to develops communication, critical thinking and argumentation skills. I also learn from my senior on how to searching evidence or information for the discussed topic. I hope that in the oncoming semester, I get to participate again to further enhance myself from different perspectives.