Discover Debate

Discover Debate provides step-by-step techniques on how to support a house and attack the construction. The metaphors used throughout the book such as roof, pillars and foundation make the process easier for students to understand. This book proves to be applicable in EFL writing Instruction as well. The chapters of constructing and presenting the house enable students to build up their resolution, reasons and supports logically and coherently. The chapters of destroying and rebuilding the house make students examine a topic from an all-round way, and improve the whole discourse. Unlike traditional writing books, this one combines writing with speaking skills. By applying debating strategies in writing classrooms, students learn numerous ways of developing their ideas and improve their contextual skills, such as: exemplification, classification, cause-and-effect and comparison-and-contrast. –Ying Fang, Yangzhou University, China