Asian Argumentative Essay Writing Tournament

Purpose

Scandinavian experience with a year of preparation -

A brand-new tournament has been officially launched.

According to UNESCO’s study, independent thinking is one of the most important competencies that young people must possess. The Asian Critical Thinking Education Association insists on the principle of "using the Chinese language as a foundation to think from the mother tongue", and cultivating students' ability to think and write in depth. Borrowing from the Scandinavian model of critical thinking education, we seek to enhance the interactivity of knowledge and reduce the sense of boundaries of school subjects.

The Asian Argumentative Essay Writing Tournament is a brand-new platform where participants are required to have the ability to respond to debates, to write with sophistication, to extend their thinking and to search for information in real time.

Participants can compete on their own, without teaming up, and organize their thoughts in the five knowledge areas. The competition is designed to turn essays from unidirectional outputs to real-time confrontations.

Critical thinking is not just a form of verbalization.

Debate is not only about the output of language.

Senior teachers and debate educators from international schools with rich teaching experience will jointly grade the essays in terms of the arguments, rebuttals, inferences, and choices of wording.

Join us to view the world through debating.

Features

Asia's first writing debate competition - The first debate tournament to use written words as the format of the competition, with an exclusively developed online system that breaks through the traditional format and upgrades the debating experience to writing exciting.

International scale brings together students from all over the world - The online platform transcends the limitations of distance and time, allowing elites of the same age group from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Macao, Mainland China, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States to interact with each other through writing. This encourages exchanges of diversified and independent thinking.

Strong collaboration between renowned language teachers and critical thinking experts - The judging panel, which includes school principals and directors from over 30 international schools, and 30 top critical thinking educators to ensure that the essays are professionally graded, and that all contestants could participate in critical thinking seminars hosted by the judges themselves.