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Evaluating Arguments

  • By Spencer Waugh
  • Aug 15, 2016
  • Filed in CC3 Consider Arguments, In Class Activity, SLO3 Evaluate Argument, Text

Five steps for students to use to evaluate an argument: The website asks students in these steps to 1) look at the conclusion of an argument, 2) determine what the premise of the argument 3) test the validity.

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Strengths:

The five steps to evaluate arguments are clear, and require minimal adaptation to use an in-class activity or assign as homework.

Concerns:

This may be an oversimplification of argument evaluation.  Please also check copyright.

Recommendations:

It is a single page that could be easily projected during class. (or link emailed to students) The instructor would need to have your own arguments ready for students to evaluate.