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 - Spring 2008

  • 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

  • Essay Checklist

  • Grading Rubric

  • MLA Paper Template (*.doc file)

  • MLA Documentation Overview (McBride) - Required Reading

  • MLA Works Cited Example (McBride) - Required Reading

  • EasyBib: The Free Automatic Bibliography Composer

  • MLA: Works Cited Assignment

  • MLA: Annotated Bibliography Assignment

  • UNC Writing Lab Handout: Annotated Bibliography (excerpted)

  • MS Word Annotated Bibliography Template

  • MLA Finals Review (McBride)

  • 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  

  • Documenting WWW Sources (MLA)

  • ENG 1213: Vocabulary Quiz Study Guide

  • Sentence Combining Tips

  • A Writer's Inventory

  • Thesis Equation
     

• Introduction to Argumentation

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

  • How to Research - 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

  • Academic Essay Guidelines

  • What is Rhetorical Analysis?

  • Three Argumentative Appeals

  • Thesis Equation Handout

  • Essay Formatting Guidelines - Required Reading
     

• UNIT ONE: HITLER AND LOGICAL FALLACIES

  • Unit One Essay Handout: Argument Analysis REVISED VERSION

  • Sample: Argument Analysis Essay on Hitler

  • Reading Homework

  • Practice Paragraph Assignment - Hitler and Logical Fallacies

  • Practice Paragraph Grading Rubric

  • Logical Fallacies Handlist (L. Kip Wheeler)

  • Logical Fallacies by Type

  • Logical Fallacies Study Guide

  • "Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled" (Donna Woolfolk Cross) - Required Reading

  • Hitler: "On Nation and Race" from Mein Kampf

  • Richard Nixon: "Checker's Speech"

  • Video: Nixon's "Checker's Speech"

  • Essay 1 Content Guide (not the same as the essay checklist you attach to your paper)
     

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

  • Unit 2 Essay Assignment Handout

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

  • Plato Lecture Notes and Online Links

  • Plato: Summary Worksheet

  • Plato: Summary

  • Plato: wiseGEEK Summary

  • Wikipedia entry for "Allegory of the Cave"

  • Wikipedia entry for "The Socratic Method"

  • The World of Being and the World of Becoming

  • Spark Notes: Plato
     

• Unit Three: John Stuart Mill and liberty

  • Unit 3 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 FOUR: FREE CHOICE TOPIC

  • Unit 4 Essay Assignment Handout

  • Writing an Argumentative Essay

  • Argument Essay Topics (suggestions)

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

  • Paper Proposal Assignment