First, someone involved should have an idea of what they're doing. Someone should understand what a productive debate looks like. Simplifying, you should either have a debate moderator or a debate participant who is capable of being a debate moderator. If no one knows how to do that, your debate is likely to be disorganized and unproductive. Meeting this prerequisite doesn't guarantee a good debate, but it gives you a better chance. If you don't meet this prerequisite, consider collaboration instead. If you don't meet this prerequisite and have strong disagreements and adversarial attitudes, consider aborting or finding a moderator.
Here I wanna try making essay paragraphs to try to describe stuff objectively:
In the article, Temple stated that, first, people involved in debates should have an idea of what their doing. What Temple means here is that people should have an idea about what to do on a debate. One can see Temple’s statement as a response to the question what should you have before a debate? How one participates in a debate is important for answering that question. To clarify what he says, Temple stated someone should know what a productive debate looks like. This clarifies how to view debates-it’s about success, success at how it goes. How the debate goes means both sides are fair, not talking over each other, being genuine, and not hostile.
What i think i could work on:
The paragraph doesn’t seem to flow well to me like after I bring up the question what should you have before a debate? I think I bring up another topic that can be in a paragraph maybe. It seems that what I wrote after the sentence doesn’t connect well with what I wrote before the question
More paragraphs. I just did one. Why not many? Seems like slow progress to me. What’s my goal?
Know if it’s ok to write a question down like I did in the paragraph without adding a colon to introduce it.
Is clarify the right word in the 5th sentence?
Reading the paragraph after writing once doesn’t sound the same as when I wrote it. Is it an English issue? like grammar or does it have to do with using more writing as a I speak more?
Use more em dashes instead of just hyphens. Also know if em dashes are appropriate
Why couldn’t I find something better to say than, “success at how it goes.” in the second to last sentence? Is it an issue related to vocab? Do I needa fix my English? Why’d I take so long rewriting that part? I didn’t know how to fix it. It was hard to relate success at something to how a productive debate looks like.