Your position is wrong! The Unitis hosted a master class by political scientist Stanislav Davydov “Conducting debates.” He shared his experience and taught students how to defend their position and make the right arguments. When participating in debates, you need to: provide evidence, not your personal opinion; take into account the audience’s attention span; do not use a lot of complex statistics that are difficult to perceive by ear. The meeting participants learned: about rhetorical techniques that can be useful in a speech: about the three pillars of rhetoric; about the 5 C rule; about the “Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis” method in argumentation …