Caucus Outline

Today, Wednesday, September 23^rd, we will practice our speeches. In order to practice our speeches that we will make in our opening statements, and general, substantive and formal debates. The best way to work on that is by writing a…

 

Caucus Outline

 

• What is a caucus outline?
  
  • An outline is something that we write which has some sort of organization and helps us organize our thoughts and talking points during a speech.
    
  • A caucus outline is something that we write which has a bulletd list and helps us organize our thoughts and talking points during speeches we make during caucus.
    
    • You can make a caucus outline however you want!
      
      • If you want to do bulleted lists, that's ok.
        
      • If you want to use notecards, that's ok.
        
      • DO WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU!
        
• What should I have in my caucus outline?
  
  • background
    
  • policy
    
  • organizations
    
  • documents
    
  • solutions
    
• Isn't that just my position paper in a bulleted list or on notecards?
  
  • Almost. A caucus outline is based off of your position paper and your research, but a caucus outline is different because it allows you to speak about different sections when you need to.
    
  • A speech starts from the top of the page and you read it until the bottom
    
  • With a caucus outline, if another country brings up a point about the topic "X", and the topic "X" is at the bottom of your page, your caucus outline prepares you to go from one place to another very quickly.
    
    • This way you don't have to read through an entire speech to find what you are looking for.
      
• What specifically doe s a caucus outline help me do?
  
  • 1.) Organize
    
    • A caucus outline helps you categorize your information so tha toyu do not get lost during your speech.
      
    • It saves us from ever going "ummmm….'giggle"…ummmmmmm…."
      
  • 2.) Provide substance and detail
    
    • When talking about such a big topic as H1N1 or nuclear can disarmament, we have to know a lot of information. A caucus outline sets it up so that you can easily find whatever information you need.
      
    • If China argues "point X" and you know that what they say is false and you can prove it based on another source of information, then you can easily jump in and say "Actually, China argues "point X" but according to Amnesty International, 7,500 people were murdered by the CCP in Xinjiang last fall" or something else similar.
      
  • 3.) Diversify my speech
    
    • Your caucus outline should talk about the history of the problem, current programs, your countries' policy, and possible solutions (or reasons why other contries' solutions won't work).
      
    • That is a lot of information to handle. So, by having a good caucus outline diversifies your speech.
      
• What can I NOT do with caucus outlines?
  
  • You can not substitute your caucus outline for you position paper.
    
  • You can not have a pre-written resolution in the caucus. You must write a resolution with other countries.
    
    • Sometimes, a country will attempt to put in a pre-written resolution in the real UN. This will anger everyone and most likely it will not work because there are so many different things that other countries want.