• Delivery Mode: Online (link to be circulated - phone-friendly)

• Estimated time: 30-45 min (individually, at the participant’s convenience)

• No limit on number of participants and no log in / registration required

Content summary (no assessment):

• What does it feel like to be a parliamentary debater?

• Thinking about things in terms of 'motions', 'definitions', 'burdens of proof', and 'clashes'

• Rules and formats - Asians style and British parliamentary

• Delivery mode: Online (link to be circulated - phone-friendly)

• Estimated time: 3 hours (individually, at the participant’s convenience; need not be done in one go)

• No limit on number of participants but log in / registration required

Content summary (short readings and video material with quizzes for self-assessment):

• Strong and weak arguments

• Fallacies, axioms, and assumptions

• Identifying types of arguments: Deductive / non-deductive, empirical / theoretical, normative / non-normative

• Delivery mode: In-person (at the NLSIU campus)

• Estimated time: Four hours per batch in two sessions of two hours each (two batches either side of lunch on Saturday and Sunday - each participant only attends one batch)

• Maximum of 48 participants in four batches of 12 each (registration required)

Content summary (individual and team exercises with feedback):

• Practical Exercise 1: Creating and refuting arguments (short individual speeches - 1 hour)

• Practical Exercise 2: Making up stuff (case construction in teams of three - 1 hour)

• Practice debate 1 (1 hour)

• Practice debate 2 (1 hour)