TO DOdue 20 March
Smartphones should be banned for the entire school day.
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Motion
Smartphones should be banned for the entire school day.
You defendAGAINST · assigned by your teacher
Round 1
Your argument
A whole-day ban treats the tool as the cause. In the two schools that published figures, absences did not move after the ban. What moved was where the boredom went.
- ✓ Anticipates the objection
- ✓ Cites evidence
- ✗ Hasty generalisation
Opponent's response
Concession
I grant you boredom as part of the mechanism.
Rebuttal
It still leaves the filming in the corridors unexplained, and that is the part a whole-day ban does stop.
Evidence demand
Name the two schools and the year, or drop the number and keep the mechanism.
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DialecticaGFGiulia Ferraroclass 9B · Ada Byron State School
class 9B · Ada Byron State School
Hi, Giulia.
You have 1 assignment to do. Due Friday 20 March.
Your assignments
DONE8,0/10
Cities should close their historic centres to private traffic.
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You assess
A score per rubric dimension and a draft report, with the reasoning behind both. Change anything, then export one PDF per student.
Ada Byron State School · class 9BStudent: Giulia Ferraro · 12/03/2026
DialecticaMotion
«Smartphones should be banned for the entire school day.» Role: against, World Schools, 4 phases
Content30/40Style29/40Strategy13/20Total72/100
Grade7.0Level: Intermediate
Strongest point
«If the ban only applied during lessons, phones would go straight back into students' hands at break, and break is when the videos filmed on the sly get made.»
You took the opposing proposal and showed its concrete consequence, instead of repeating your own claim.
To improve
«Banning things has never worked, everybody knows that, and any teacher will tell you the same.»
«Everybody knows» is not evidence: the listener can deny it at no cost, and you are left with nothing to stand on.
Rhetorical profile
From the debate analysis, not a grade.
Reasoning78Rebuttal62Credibility71Engagement69Clarity84Timing66
Teacher's signature:
World Schools-style score (training) · Final assessment set by the teacher.
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You held your position through all four phases, and in the Defence you answered your opponent's point instead of repeating your own. That's the hardest part of the format, and you pulled it off.
Where you lose ground is on evidence: two arguments out of five rest on an “everybody knows” that the listener can reject at no cost.
Where you lose ground is on evidence: two arguments out of five rest on an “everybody knows” that the listener can reject at no cost.
2Strongest pointQuote and why it worked
Quote
If the ban only applied during lessons, phones would go straight back into students' hands at break, and break is when the videos filmed on the sly get made.
Why it worked
You took the opposing proposal and showed its concrete consequence, instead of repeating your own claim.
6Rhetorical profileNumbers from the analysis, not editable
Rebuttal62
Credibility71
Engagement69
Clarity84
Timing66
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We don't have one yet. The measurement is built and collection with schools is starting. Even expert annotators agree only weakly on argument quality.
“You sell in five languages a system tuned in one.”
Correct. So no figure travels: every result we publish stays tied to the language and rubric it was measured in.
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