Introduction to Argumentation

Unit 1     Unit 2     Unit 3     Unit 4

• Basic Course Documents

  • ENG 1213: Individual Links to Reader and Supplement Material

  • ENG 1213 Syllabus

  • Essay Checklist

  • Grading Rubric
     

  • Writing in College: A Short Guide to College Writing by Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney (for an MS Word formatted version, click here.)
     

  • MLA Works Cited Example

  • MLA Paper Template (*.doc file)

  • MLA Documentation Overview (McBride) - Required Reading

  • MLA Power Point

  • Critical Thinking Exercise

  • How to Research (McBride) - Required Reading

  • MLA Works Cited Example (McBride) - Required Reading

  • EasyBib: The Free Automatic Bibliography Composer

  • MLA Works Cited and Parenthetical Notation Homework

  • UNC Writing Lab Handout: Annotated Bibliography (excerpted)

  • MS Word Annotated Bibliography Template

  • MLA Finals Review (McBride)

  • MLA Works Cited and Parenthetical Notation Homework

  • A Guide to Research: MLA

  • Documenting WWW Sources (MLA)

  • MLA Paper Template (*.doc file) (McBride)
     

  • Plagiarism

  • Plagiarism Quiz
     

  • Portfolio Assignment Handout - NEW

  • Commonly Recognized Research Paper Conventions

  • ENG 1213: Vocabulary Quiz Study Guide
     

  • Sentence Combining Tips

  • A Writer's Inventory

  • Thesis Equation
     

• UNIT ONE: THE SHORT ARGUMENT - FREE TOPIC

  • Unit One Handout - Required Reading

  • Supplemental Information for "Cherries"

  • "Analyzing a Text" - from the Norton Field Guide to Writing

  • Lucien Stryk, "Cherries" (with footnotes by me)

  • "Cherries" Powerpoint (PDF)

  • "Cherries" Example

  • John Donne, Meditation XVII

    • Luminarium page on Donne

    • Longman Biography page on Donne

    • SparkNotes page on Donne

  • Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"

    • SparkNotes discussion on the poem

    • SparkNotes overview of Frost

    • "Modern American Poetry" collection of critical comments

  • Essay Development Packet - Required Reading

  • Three Argumentative Appeals (Rhetorical Triangle) - Required Reading

  • Essay Formatting Guidelines - Required Reading

  • Writing an Argumentative Essay

  • Paradigm's Writing Argumentative Essays

  • Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial

  • Establishing Arguments

  • UniLearning: Writing Argument

  • Essays and Arguments: A Handbook on Writing Argumentative and Interpretive Essays by Ian Johnston

  • What is Rhetorical Analysis?

   

UNIT TWO: LOGICAL FALLACIES

• Essay Handout: Argument Analysis

• Logical Fallacies by Type

• Logical Fallacies Handlist (L. Kip Wheeler)

• The Daily Show: "RNC in Hawaii" - an example of logical fallacies

• Video Lectures on Unit 2

  • Historical Overview

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

  • Part 3

  • Part 4

• Sample: Argument Analysis Essay on Hitler

• US News and Report Article on speech

• Encyclopedia of Television News: "Checker's Speech"

• The events surrounding the Checker's Speech

• "The Speech that Made Nixon's Dog Famous"

• Richard Nixon: "Checker's Speech" (text)

• Video: Nixon's "Checker's Speech"

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

• Unit THREE: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

  • Essay Assignment Handout

  • Plato: "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic

  • Plato Lecture Notes and Online Links

  • Video Lectures:

    • Essay Overview (5:21 minutes)

    • Allegory Part 1: What Is the Cave? (2:16 minutes)

    • Allegory Part 2: Waking Up in the Dark (5:11 minutes)

    • Allegory Part 3: Leaving the Cave (1:16 minutes)

    • Allegory Part 4: How Are We Educated? (2:52 minutes)

    • Allegory Part 5: The Return to the Cave (3:23 minutes)

    • Allegory Part 6: Leading the Republic (5:11 minutes)

    • Allegory Part 7: Contexts for the Essay (1:25 minutes)

  • Plato Context Assignment

  • Plato: Relativism and Society Definitions Worksheet

  • Plato: Summary Worksheet

  • Plato: Summary

  • Plato: Notes by Gorman

  • Plato: wiseGEEK Summary

  • Wikipedia entry for "Allegory of the Cave"

  • Wikipedia entry for "The Socratic Method"

  • Wikipedia entry for "Relativism"

  • "Relativism" - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • "Cognitive Relativism"

  • "Aesthetic Relativism"

  • "Truth" - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

  • The World of Being and the World of Becoming

  • Spark Notes: Plato

   

• Unit Four FREE CHOICE TOPIC

  • Free Choice Essay Handout

  • Paper Proposal Handout

  • Sample Essays: A+ Paper and D- Paper

  • McBride's How to Research

  • Argument Essay Topics (suggestions)

  • Argument Essay Topic Links (from the ENG 1213 Online class site)

  • Review Handouts on Writing:

    • MLA Documentation PowerPoint  (PDF or DOC of slides to print out)

    • Essay Development Packet

    • Writing the Academic Essay - NEW!!!

      • PowerPoint Presentation (PDF and DOC versions)

    • The Rhetorical Triangle

    • "Argument" - University of North Carolina Handout - Supplemental Reading

   

SUPPLEMENTAL UNITS - Not part of usual coursework

• Unit FIVE: John Stuart Mill and liberty

  • Essay Assignment Handout

  • Links about "On Liberty"

    • "On Liberty" from Bartleby.com

    • "On Liberty" Drastically Abridged (Ian Johnston)

    • Lecture Notes on Mill's "On Liberty" (Ian Johnston)

    • Wikipedia entry for John Stuart Mill

    • Wikipedia entry for "On Liberty"

    • Spark Notes: "On Liberty" (formatted *.doc version)

    • Grade Saver: "On Liberty" Summary & Analysis

  • James Bovard, "Free Speech Zones"

  • Linda Monk's Analysis of the Bill of Rights

  • Melvin Uroksky, Rights of the People: Individual Freedom & the Bill of Rights

  • Sample Introduction and Historical Background (McBride)

   

• UNIT SIX: LITERACY

  • Essay Assignment Handout

  • "Literacy and the Politics of Education" by C. H. Knoblauch

  • Literacy in General

    • Literacy

    • National Center for Education Statistics

    • National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy

    • National Institute for Literacy

    • Literacy Facts at a Glance

  • Critical Literacy

    • Critical Literacy and Resurrection

    • Critical Literacy

    • Critical Literacy (2)

    • Reading the Word/Reading the World

    • Developing Critical Literacy (from Oprah)

  • Functional Literacy

    • Functional Literacy

    • How Educated are We: Functional Literacy and Educational Attainment

    • Our Space: Functional Literacy

    • Adult Education - Funtional Literacy and Life Skills Program for State and Local Prisoners (from 1993-94 report)

  • Cultural  Literacy

    • Cultural Literacy

    • Introduction to the 1st edition of the New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

  • Supplemental Essays by Ullman and Hartnett