7/27/2019 in which i get to be a cynical asshole for a
grade.doc
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Nguyen
Camille Nguyen
Prof. Ayn Nys
AP Language and Composition/4thperiod
30 October 0!3
L" #$aluation for the Other %eam& 'n (hich ' get to be a
Cynical )er* for a +rade
%he debate ' ,atched ,as bet,een -en %rans team and Ale Phams
team. A
coin ,as flipped to determine ,ho ,ould go first and -en decided
to argue for the
affirmati$e side thus ma*ing Ales team the negati$e. 1he
basically resol$es that social
net,or*ing has a negati$e impact on society and ' belie$e she
implied it should be done
a,ay ,ith for good. -ens team split up their case bet,een the
members ,ith each
reading the same amount of information. 2or Ales group i$ian
read their case for
them and ,al*ed around the room doing so. -ens group lac*ed
emotion ,ithin their
,ords but they made up for it ,ith bountiful and accurate
information. 1he ,as concise
and her argument ,as incredibly strong and attributed most of
her information to reliable
sources and statistics. Ales group on the other hand didnt ecel
much in that
department but they had ,a$es of charisma and passion rolling
off of them ma*ing it
easy to sympathise ,ith their side. 'n addition their
transitions bet,een their contentions
flo,ed really ,ell. %he negati$e as*ed really good uestions and
,ere really efficient in
bac*ing up their argument in their rebuttal but they did made
the mista*e of not directly
rebutting the affirmati$es contentions. -en noticed this and
pointed it out. 1he included
current e$ents from around the ,orld to ma*e her argument
stronger. 5oth sides had
difficulty finding an eual definition for particular terms in
the prompt and they both
focused on different aspects of social net,or*ing and its impact
on society.
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' felt that the strongest debater ,as -en %ran. 6o,e$er Ale Pham
came
really close. -en used a sufficient amount of reliable sources
to bac* up her argument
paraphrased them efficiently deli$ered her information in a
concise and sophisticated
manner and she lac*ed insecurity ,ithin her ,ords. 1he appealed
to the audience ,ith
ethos and pathos gi$ing eamples of ho, social net,or*ing has
hurt people through
cyberbullying and ,hatnot. %hough morality is hard to pinpoint
do,n she did it
efficiently ,ith enough e$idence to hold up her argument.
' do not *no, the name of the person ' thought ,as the ,ea*est
debater 7'm
sorry 'm a 8er* ' *no,9 but it ,as one of the girls on the
affirmati$e side. 1did help
-en to bac* up their arguments but she ,as ,ea* at some spots
because she relied more
on her sources and ,as essentially 8ust paraphrasing tet
e$idence more than she ,as
arguing. 1he does seem to understand the prompt really ,ell but
she seemed to lac*
confidence ,ithin her o,n abilities thus she tried to play it a
little too safe.
