Syllabus
Critical Thinking and Argumentation: An Introduction
Unit 1 Loges, Ethos, Pathos and Needs
Ⅰ Logos, Ethos and Pathos
Ⅱ Needs Analysis
Unit 2 Fallacious Appeals to Emotion
SES Assignment
Unit 3 Fallacies about People
Unit 4 A Claim of Fact
Claims
Assignment
Unit 5 Fallacies about Arguments (Ⅰ)
Unit 6 Fallacies about Arguments (Ⅱ)
Unit 7 A Claim of Value
Unit 8 Fallacies about Analogy
Illustrative Analogy vs. Faulty Analogy
Unit 9 Fallacies in Deduction and Induction
Deduction and Induction
Unit 10 A Claim of Policy
Unit 11 Statistics and Ambiguities
Unit 12 Arguments for Analysis: Putting It All Together
Key to Exercises and Homework
Appendix Ⅰ: Topics for Argumentative Essays
Appendix Ⅱ: Examples of the MLA Style of In-Text Documentation and Bibliography
Appendix Ⅲ: Glossary of Fallacies
References
