Contemporary Argumentation and Rhetoric
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Copyright: 2016
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2016
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An introductory course in argumentation and rhetoric gives students the tools with which to improve their critical thinking abilities and with which to communicate that thinking in an effective manner. Effective critical thinking is necessary to understand ourselves and the world. Without effective critical thinking, we cannot make reasonable decisions about what to believe and about how to act. As individuals, our own decisions construct our lives and shape the lives of those around us. As members of family, group, community, and of the broader society and culture, our productive participation requires an ability to communicate our thinking.
Contemporary Argumentation and Rhetoric analyzes the interplay of effective critical thinking and the ability to communicate our thoughts. The publication presents and develops three main models of argument: the contemporary Toulmin model, the deductive model of argument, and the inductive model of argument.
In addition to presenting three main models of argument and introducing the basics of debating, the course package includes interactive activities such as Interactive Flash Cards, Quizzes / Exams, and other classroom activities.
Chapter 1 Introductory Concepts
Chapter Objectives
Rhetoric
Critical Thinking
Models of Argument
Debating
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: The critical thinker
Chapter 2 Classical Rhetoric
Chapter Objectives
The Beginning: Corax and Sophists
Plato
Aristotle
Proofs: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Aristotle’s Five Canons of Rhetoric
Cicero and Quintilian
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: A brief history of rhetoric to argumentation (unrelated to text)
Enunciation Exercises
Practice With a Peer Worksheet
Chapter 3 Contemporary Rhetoric
Chapter Objectives
Rhetoric and Truth
Medieval Times and Rhetoric
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
19th Century
Other Contributions
Contemporary Elements of a Classical Foundation
Conclusion
Your Understanding
Great American Rhetoric Assignment
Chapter 4 The Toulmin Model
Chapter Objectives
Toulmin Versus Aristotle
The Components of the Toulmin Model
The Optional Components
Analyzing Arguments using Toulmin’s Model
Informal Logical Fallacies
Appeals to Authority and False Authority
Appeal to Ignorance
Red Herring
Appeal to Fear
Personal Attacks, also Known as “Ad Hominem”
Hypocrite, also Known as “Ad Hominem Tu Quoque”
Appeal to Tradition
Straw Man Fallacy
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Toulmin Model Mapping
Chapter 5 The Deductive Model
Chapter Objectives
Formal Logic
Truth
Theories of Truth
Characteristics of Arguments
Syllogisms & Enthymemes
Venn Diagrams
Logical Fallacies
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: Basic concepts - facts, propositions, truth, and argument
Self-Assessment: Syllogisms
Self-Assessment: Fixing enthymemes
Self-Assessment: Venn Diagrams
Chapter 6 The Inductive Model
Chapter Objectives
Logic Meets Reality
Analogy
Causality
Inductive Fallacies
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: Inductive arguments
Chapter 7 Foundations of Debate
Chapter Objectives
Debate as Rhetoric and Argument in Action
Resolutions/Claims at Issue and Types of Claims
The Burden of Proof and the Burden of Rejoinder
Forms of Competitive Debate
Different Forms of Debate
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Chapter 8 Preparing to Debate
Chapter Objectives
Researching for Your Debate
Cutting Cards
Assembling Arguments
Constructives, Rebuttals, and Cross-Examination
Evaluating a Debate
Practice
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Orally Citing Your Sources Worksheet
Evidence #1: Title of Work
Evidence #2: Title of Work
Supporting Evidence Worksheet
Evidence Support #1
Using Statistics in Your Speech
Hints for using statistic effectively
Verbal Support: Example of Raw Research
Resource Activity: Citing Your Sources Worksheet
The 3 elements of each piece of evidence
An Example Piece of Evidence
Negative Disadvantage Outline
Negative Counterplan Outline
Chapter 9 One on One Debate
Chapter Objectives
Arguing the Facts
Debating Values
Evaluating Actions
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
A Sample One-on-One Debate Structure
Chapter 10 Team Debate
Chapter Objectives
Working with a Partner
Time Management
Strategic Debate
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Example: General Template for Affirmative case Based on Need
A Sample Team Debate Structure
Appendix: Fallacies of Logic
By the time you’re reading this, Michael is probably rich and famous and you have seen the videos and specials. In case we are not living in those possible worlds, a few words may be in order.
Michael was born in what used to be called Yugoslavia and his parents brought the family to the United States in the late 1960s. He grew up in the Midwest, joined the high school debate team, and competitive speaking transformed a shy bookish nerd into an outgoing, competitive, bookish nerd. For the next twenty-five years or so, he remained in intercollegiate policy debate as a competitor, coach, and program director.
Michael’s education has been all over the map, but he earned a BS in communication from Southern Illinois University and an MA in Rhetoric from Kansas State University. He has been teaching at Bakersfield College for more than a decade and these have been the most rewarding years of his life. He has been teaching Public Speaking for nearly three decades and has evaluated at least seventeen thousand speeches by more than four thousand students. Michael Korcok has experienced ears.
Michael’s life has been immeasurably enlivened by the love of his life and wife, Jessica. Their son John Edward is a minute-by-minute reminder of how amazing this world, among all possible worlds, is.
He is and always will be grateful to his mother Katerina and father Janko for a life filled with opportunity.
Andrea Thorson-Hevle is a dedicated professor and author. With community college work from Bakersfield College, a BA from Bradley University, a MA from California State University, Long Beach, and some doctoral work from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Andrea has collected a variety of degrees. Her favorite areas of interest include: women’s studies, interpersonal communication, disability, education, law, and language. She has published several books in the Communication discipline and enjoys giving invited lectures on issues of oppression, women, and education.
Andrea is currently teaching pubic speaking, small group, interpersonal, and rhetoric and argumentation courses at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, CA. She thanks her parents James and Debra Thorson for their sacrifices and faith that lead her to a successful life, as well as her dear friend Sarah Crachiolo for her support and humor through the years. She is especially grateful to her loving husband Justin for his unwavering encouragement and for giving her the three greatest blessings of her life: Montgomery, Sebastian, and James.
An introductory course in argumentation and rhetoric gives students the tools with which to improve their critical thinking abilities and with which to communicate that thinking in an effective manner. Effective critical thinking is necessary to understand ourselves and the world. Without effective critical thinking, we cannot make reasonable decisions about what to believe and about how to act. As individuals, our own decisions construct our lives and shape the lives of those around us. As members of family, group, community, and of the broader society and culture, our productive participation requires an ability to communicate our thinking.
Contemporary Argumentation and Rhetoric analyzes the interplay of effective critical thinking and the ability to communicate our thoughts. The publication presents and develops three main models of argument: the contemporary Toulmin model, the deductive model of argument, and the inductive model of argument.
In addition to presenting three main models of argument and introducing the basics of debating, the course package includes interactive activities such as Interactive Flash Cards, Quizzes / Exams, and other classroom activities.
Chapter 1 Introductory Concepts
Chapter Objectives
Rhetoric
Critical Thinking
Models of Argument
Debating
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: The critical thinker
Chapter 2 Classical Rhetoric
Chapter Objectives
The Beginning: Corax and Sophists
Plato
Aristotle
Proofs: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Aristotle’s Five Canons of Rhetoric
Cicero and Quintilian
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: A brief history of rhetoric to argumentation (unrelated to text)
Enunciation Exercises
Practice With a Peer Worksheet
Chapter 3 Contemporary Rhetoric
Chapter Objectives
Rhetoric and Truth
Medieval Times and Rhetoric
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
19th Century
Other Contributions
Contemporary Elements of a Classical Foundation
Conclusion
Your Understanding
Great American Rhetoric Assignment
Chapter 4 The Toulmin Model
Chapter Objectives
Toulmin Versus Aristotle
The Components of the Toulmin Model
The Optional Components
Analyzing Arguments using Toulmin’s Model
Informal Logical Fallacies
Appeals to Authority and False Authority
Appeal to Ignorance
Red Herring
Appeal to Fear
Personal Attacks, also Known as “Ad Hominem”
Hypocrite, also Known as “Ad Hominem Tu Quoque”
Appeal to Tradition
Straw Man Fallacy
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Toulmin Model Mapping
Chapter 5 The Deductive Model
Chapter Objectives
Formal Logic
Truth
Theories of Truth
Characteristics of Arguments
Syllogisms & Enthymemes
Venn Diagrams
Logical Fallacies
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: Basic concepts - facts, propositions, truth, and argument
Self-Assessment: Syllogisms
Self-Assessment: Fixing enthymemes
Self-Assessment: Venn Diagrams
Chapter 6 The Inductive Model
Chapter Objectives
Logic Meets Reality
Analogy
Causality
Inductive Fallacies
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Self-Assessment: Inductive arguments
Chapter 7 Foundations of Debate
Chapter Objectives
Debate as Rhetoric and Argument in Action
Resolutions/Claims at Issue and Types of Claims
The Burden of Proof and the Burden of Rejoinder
Forms of Competitive Debate
Different Forms of Debate
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Chapter 8 Preparing to Debate
Chapter Objectives
Researching for Your Debate
Cutting Cards
Assembling Arguments
Constructives, Rebuttals, and Cross-Examination
Evaluating a Debate
Practice
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Orally Citing Your Sources Worksheet
Evidence #1: Title of Work
Evidence #2: Title of Work
Supporting Evidence Worksheet
Evidence Support #1
Using Statistics in Your Speech
Hints for using statistic effectively
Verbal Support: Example of Raw Research
Resource Activity: Citing Your Sources Worksheet
The 3 elements of each piece of evidence
An Example Piece of Evidence
Negative Disadvantage Outline
Negative Counterplan Outline
Chapter 9 One on One Debate
Chapter Objectives
Arguing the Facts
Debating Values
Evaluating Actions
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
A Sample One-on-One Debate Structure
Chapter 10 Team Debate
Chapter Objectives
Working with a Partner
Time Management
Strategic Debate
Conclusion
Check Your Understanding
Example: General Template for Affirmative case Based on Need
A Sample Team Debate Structure
Appendix: Fallacies of Logic
By the time you’re reading this, Michael is probably rich and famous and you have seen the videos and specials. In case we are not living in those possible worlds, a few words may be in order.
Michael was born in what used to be called Yugoslavia and his parents brought the family to the United States in the late 1960s. He grew up in the Midwest, joined the high school debate team, and competitive speaking transformed a shy bookish nerd into an outgoing, competitive, bookish nerd. For the next twenty-five years or so, he remained in intercollegiate policy debate as a competitor, coach, and program director.
Michael’s education has been all over the map, but he earned a BS in communication from Southern Illinois University and an MA in Rhetoric from Kansas State University. He has been teaching at Bakersfield College for more than a decade and these have been the most rewarding years of his life. He has been teaching Public Speaking for nearly three decades and has evaluated at least seventeen thousand speeches by more than four thousand students. Michael Korcok has experienced ears.
Michael’s life has been immeasurably enlivened by the love of his life and wife, Jessica. Their son John Edward is a minute-by-minute reminder of how amazing this world, among all possible worlds, is.
He is and always will be grateful to his mother Katerina and father Janko for a life filled with opportunity.
Andrea Thorson-Hevle is a dedicated professor and author. With community college work from Bakersfield College, a BA from Bradley University, a MA from California State University, Long Beach, and some doctoral work from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Andrea has collected a variety of degrees. Her favorite areas of interest include: women’s studies, interpersonal communication, disability, education, law, and language. She has published several books in the Communication discipline and enjoys giving invited lectures on issues of oppression, women, and education.
Andrea is currently teaching pubic speaking, small group, interpersonal, and rhetoric and argumentation courses at Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, CA. She thanks her parents James and Debra Thorson for their sacrifices and faith that lead her to a successful life, as well as her dear friend Sarah Crachiolo for her support and humor through the years. She is especially grateful to her loving husband Justin for his unwavering encouragement and for giving her the three greatest blessings of her life: Montgomery, Sebastian, and James.