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An exciting new textbook to build great debaters, An Invitation to Debate takes students on a step-by-step preparation of case research, speech composition, rebuttals, and resolutions. Students are challenged to consider opportunities for debate to create more civil and fruitful discussions in their daily lives and on the world stage.

Ben Voth is professor of rhetoric and director of debate and speech programs at Southern Methodist University, USA. His latest book is An Invitation to Debate: Reasoning and Argument as a Framework for Civil Society. 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. He is also the author of Rwanda Rising: Debate as an Empowering International Pedagogy and The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text, as well as co-author with Robert E. Denton of Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy: The End of the Social Contract.