DCP Schedule

September 23

DUE: Your Blogs

Discussion:
Goals, Skills and Functions of Argumentation
A First Look at Arguments
Subject, Form and Rule
Ways We Reason and Ways That We Fail
Warrants
Issues of Fact
Issues of Value
Issues of Policy
The Conditions of Constructive Argumentation
Chapters 1 and 6
Prima Facie Case Outline


September 30
DUE: First Constructives Delivered
DUE: First post on Cogent and Fallacious Reasoning in Mediated Communication

Discussion:
Support: The Content of Arguments
Finding and Using Evidence
Chapters 2 through 5


October 7
DUE: Opposition Constructives Delivered and posted to your blog.
DUE: Second and third posts on Cogent and Fallacious Reasoning in Mediated Communication

Discussion:
Refutation
Language in Argument
A brief word about oral address
Spin Cycle
Types and Tests of Arguments
More fallacies
Chapters 7 through 9


October 14
DUE: Your final - Critically Thinking on Your Feet.
DUE: Fourth post on Cogent and Fallacious Reasoning in Mediated Communication