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Pre-Syllabus

Syllabus

Announcements

Objectives and Assignments
(print in landscape orientation)

• chapter 1
• chapter 2
• chapter 3
• chapter 4
• chapter 5
• chapter 6
• chapter 7
• chapter 8
• chapter 9
• chapter 10
• chapter 11
• chapter 12

Answers to Homework Questions

• 8-12, 1–6
• 9-4, 1–6

Practice Test Recap

Test on Chapters 1–3 Recap

Test on Chapters 4–6 Recap

Test on Chapters 7–9

• practice test
• practice test answer key
• test recap

Test on Chapters 10–12

• information
• practice test
• practice test answer key
• test recap

Slides

• Monday, August 21: whom to contact
• Monday, August 21: contacting me
• Monday, August 21: Reason and Argument
• Wednesday, August 23: results from survey of initial beliefs
  • link to Wikipedia article on Lake Wobegon effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon_effect
• Wednesday, August 23: arguments
• Monday, August 28: arguments versus explanations
• Wednesday, August 30: vagueness versus ambiguity
• Wednesday, September 13: assessing the credibility of a claim
• Monday, September 18: assessing the credibility of a source
• Monday, September 25: persuasion through rhetoric
• Wednesday, September 27: logical components and psychological components
• Monday, October 2: fallacies