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""An Invitation to Debate offers education on effective debate practice but also represents an urgent call for something more significant. In the current context of tribalism where discourse is affected by invectives on social media, Voth's work is a roadmap for authentic engagement with others... even those with whom we may disagree."" --Bond Benton, Professor of Communication, Montclair State University, USA ""An Invitation to Debate outlines the technique of debating with conversant, usable techniques. This book adds a fresh perspective grounded in the transformative power of debate, informed by the author's sweeping experience with the society-changing power of debate in post-genocide Rwanda. Voth handily explores the rhetorical traditions that underpin his argument for embracing debating, all the while grounded in practical application. Given our uncertain times, this volume helps facilitate fair-minded argument."" --Allan Louden, Emeritus Professor and former Director of Debate at Wake Forest University, USA

""An Invitation to Debate outlines the technique of debating with conversant, usable techniques. This book adds a fresh perspective grounded in the transformative power of debate, informed by the author's sweeping experience with the society-changing power of debate in post-genocide Rwanda. Voth handily explores the rhetorical traditions that underpin his argument for embracing debating, all the while grounded in practical application. Given our uncertain times, this volume helps facilitate fair-minded argument."" --Allan Louden, emeritus professor and former director of debate at Wake Forest University

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Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate and speech programs at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He has written five academic books since 2014 detailing how rhetoric, argumentation, and debate instruction make the critical difference in improving human society. His instructional speech and debate clients include the U.S. State department, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., and the George W. Bush Institute. As a collegiate speech and debate director he has coached more than five world champions, more than thirty national champions, and more than fifty state champions in speech and debate competitions over the past thirty years.

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