Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Department of Philosophy

MODR 1770 6.0

Summer

Techniques of Persuasion
Internet Course

Course Schedule
Week Dates Topics Relevant Assignments due2
Readings1
1 May 1 to May 7 Introduction to Course and M3 - Battersby - Bonus/Optional Quiz
Introduction to Critical Thinking - Bonus/Optional
Participation

2 May 8 to 14 Critical Thinking and Critical M - Johnson and - Participation

Reasoning Blair

3 May 15 to 21 Biases and Critical Thinking GRM!4 Ch’s 1and 2 - Quiz

4 May 22 to 28 Argument Culture - Participation

5 May 29 to June 4 Diagramming Arguments GRM! Ch 4 (pp. - Quiz

81-92), 5, 6 (pp.
131-142)

6 June 5 to 11 Writing about Arguments - Participation

7 June 12 to 18 Reading Week

8 June 19 to 25 Evaluating Arguments GRM! Ch’s 3, 7 (pp. - Quiz

167-174), 8 - Letter Assignment

9 June 26 to July 2 Assessing Facts and Values in GRM! Ch. 9,10 (pp. - Quiz
Arguments 252-257), 11 - Fallacy Presentations5

10 July 3 to 9 Assessing People in GRM! Ch. 12 - Participation

Arguments - Fallacy Presentations
Emotions in Arguments

11 July 10 to 16 Multi-Modal Argumentation M - Gilbert - Quiz

Argument Principles M - Saindon
Neutralizing Fallacies

12 July 17 to 23 Holistic Analysis GRM! Ch. 13 - Participation

Writing Essays

13 July 24 - Essay

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1 - There will be weeks that have videos and other informative links that you can find on
Moodle under the relevant week. The readings listed only correspond with the course
textbook and articles online.
2 - Every participation task, quiz, and assignment will be due on Tuesday (before
midnight EST) of the relevant week. For example, the participation task for week 2, will
be due May 14 before midnight EST.
3 - M = Moodle
4 - GRM! = Good Reasoning Matters! textbook
5 - You will be signing up for a particular fallacy and will only have to present that fallacy
on week 9 or 10 (the date depends on the fallacy you choose).

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