15.11.1: How Arguments Work and the Argumentative Writing and Critical Thinking Course Objectives (2024)

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    California C-ID English 105 is the outline for one of our most commonly taught courses, variously referred to as Argumentative Writing and Critical Thinking, Advanced Composition, Argumentation, Rhetoric in College, or Writing about Nonfiction.The C-ID ENGL 105 Descriptorexplains, "This course offers instruction in argumentation and critical writing, critical thinking, analytical evaluation of primarily non-fiction texts, research strategies, information literacy, and documentation."

    Table of Resources That Align with California Course Objectives for Argumentative Writing and Critical Thinking

    Objective listed in the C-ID English 105 course descriptor

    How Arguments Work sections centered on this objective

    Ancillary resources that help students meet the objective

    Objective #1:

    Critically read, analyze, compare, and evaluate complex, diversenon-fiction texts

    • Chapter 2: Reading to Figure out the Argumentcovers annotation and how to look out for common phrases that identify the elements of a complexargument according to the Toulmin model.
    • Chapter 3: Writing a Summary of Another Writer’s Argumentcovers common phrases foranalyzingan argument's structure. ItincludesSection 3.7: Writing a Short Summary of a Long Argument andSection 3.9: Comparing and Contrasting Arguments.
    • Chapter 4: Assessing the Strength of an Argumentshows how to evaluate arguments.
    • Chapter 8: How Arguments Appeal to Emotion (Pathos)shows how to analyze appeals to emotion.
    • Chapter 9: How Arguments Establish Trust and Connection (Ethos)shows how to analyze appeals to trust.
    • Chapter 10: Writing an Analysis of an Argument’s Strategiesdiscusses how to structure argument analysis essays and includes a section on audience and purpose.
    • Chapter 15: Teacher’s Guide offers suggested short readings and free online books.

    Objective #2:

    Demonstrate understanding of formal and informal fallacies in language and thought

    • Chapter 4: Assessing the Strength of an Argumentcovers logical fallacies.
    • Chapter 8: How Arguments Appeal to Emotion (Pathos)discusses fallacies that involve faulty appeals to emotion.
    • Chapter 9: How Arguments Establish Trust and Connection (Ethos)discusses fallacies that involve faultyappeals to trust or credibility.
    • Practice exercises: Each section of each chapterhas at least one practice exercise described at the end of the section.
    • Quizzes: Each of the chaptershas an associated self-grading quiz with automated feedback. Preview these by logging into Canvas and visiting How Arguments Work on Canvas Commons.

    Objective #3:

    Identify a text's premises and assumptions in various social, historical, cultural, psychological, or aesthetic contexts

    • Chapter 2: Reading to Figure out the Argumentfollows the Toulmin model to teach analysis of premises via mapping out claims, reasons, counterarguments and limits (qualifiers).
    • Chapter 4: Assessing the Strength of an Argumentincludes Section 4.5: Check the Argument's Assumptionswhich details how to identify assumptions (warrants) and uses Toulmin mapping.
    • Chapter 10: Writing an Analysis of an Argument’s Strategiesincludes 10.2: Analyzing an Argument's Situation (Kairos, or the Rhetorical Situation), which discusses how to identify the argument's context, purpose, and genre. 10.7: Analyzing Visual Argumentsshows how to identify premises and assumptions when analyzing an image's message.

    Objective #4:

    Analyze and employ logical and structural methods such as inductive and deductive reasoning, cause and effect, and logos, ethos, and pathos.

    • Chapter 2: Reading to Figure out the Argumentfollows the Toulmin model to teach logical and structural methods of reasoning.
    • Chapter 3: Writing a Summary of Another Writer’s Argumentincludes phrases for analyzingof an argument's logical and structural methods of reasoning.
    • Chapter 4: Assessing the Strength of an Argumentcovers inductive and deductive reasoning in 4.4: Decide How Strong the Evidence Is.
    • Chapter 7: Forming a Research-Based Argumentincludes extensive sections on particular methods of reasoning in definition, evaluation, causal, and proposal arguments.
    • Chapter 8: How Arguments Appeal to Emotion (Pathos)provides in-depth treatment of pathos strategies.
    • Chapter 9: How Arguments Establish Trust and Connection (Ethos)provides in-depth treatmet of ethos strategies.
    • Chapter 10: Writing an Analysis of an Argument’s Strategiesdescribes how to combine observations into an overall argument analysis.

    Objective #5:

    Compose thesis-driven arguments to suit a variety of rhetorical situations, including interpretation, evaluation, and analysis, and support them with a variety of appropriate textual evidence and examples

    • Chapter 2: Reading to Figure out the Argumentcovers interpretation.
    • Chapter 3: Writing a Summary of Another Writer’s Argumentcovers how to write a thesis-driven interpretation.
    • Chapter 4: Assessing the Strength of an Argumentshows how to evaluate arguments and write a thesis-driven evaluation essay.
    • Chapter 7: Forming a Research-Based Argumentshows students specific approaches to supportingdefinition, evaluation, causal, and proposal arguments.
    • Chapter 10: Writing an Analysis of an Argument’s Strategiesdescribes how to combine observations into an overall argument analysis.
    • Chapter 12: Essay Organizationwill help students generate theses and organize paragraphs withexamples.12.6: Quoting and Paraphrasing, discusses how to incorporate textual evidence.

    Objective #6:

    Find, analyze, interpret, and evaluate primary and secondary sources, incorporating them into written essays using appropriate documentation format without plagiarism

    • The practice with close reading, summary, and analysis in Chapter 2: Reading to Figure out the Argument, Chapter 3: Writing a Summary of Another Writer’s Argument, andChapter 4: Assessing the Strength of an Argumentserves as a foundation for the research process.
    • Chapter 6: The Research Processcovers types of sources, search strategies, library databases, annotated bibliographies, and MLA format, including how to avoid plagiarism with MLA In-Text Citations.
    • Chapter 12: Essay Organization includes 12.6: Quoting and Paraphrasing, which discusses how to avoid plagiarism.

    Objective #7:

    Use style, diction, and tone appropriate to the academic community and the purpose of the specific writing task; proofread and edit essays for presentation so they exhibit no disruptive errors in English grammar, usage, or punctuation

    • Chapter 13: Correcting Grammar and Punctuation covers proofreading strategies and has sections devoted to themost critical and common errors, includingsubject-verb agreement, fragments, run-ons, word choice, pronoun reference, parallelism, commas, semicolons and colons, verb tense, and misplaced and dangling modifiers.
    • Chapter 14: Style--Shaping Our Sentencescoversclarity, concision, and sentence variety.
    • Practice exercises: Each section of each chapter listed for this objective has at least one practice exercise described at the end of the section.
    • Quizzes: Each of the chapters has an associated self-grading quiz with automated feedback. Preview these by logging into Canvas and visiting How Arguments Work on Canvas Commons.

    Attributions

    By Allison Murrayand Anna Mills, licensed CC BY NC 4.0.

    15.11.1: How Arguments Work and the Argumentative Writing and Critical Thinking Course Objectives (2024)
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