Objectives
The course aims to enable students to acquire, at a high level, the use of analysing tools in argumentation theory and logic (formal and informal), and to make them able to consciously apply these tools throughout their oral and written communication. In addition to improving analysing skills, the course focuses on methods of argumentation design, and the increase of argumentative practice, Those complex discursive situations are analysed that require the strategic integration of arguments.
Methodology of teaching
Lectures, analysis activities, individual and group activities, audiovisual presentation tools and techniques.
Materials supporting learning
- Johnson, Ralph H. - Blair, J. Anthony. Logical Self-Defense. IDEA, 2006.
- Murray, Rowena. How to Write a Thesis. Third Edition. Maidenhead, England: Open University Press, 2011.
- van Eemeren, H. F. – Grootendorst, R. – Henkemans, F. S. Argumentation: Analysis, Evaluation, Presentation. Mahwah, New Jersey/London: Elrbaum, 2002.
- Walton, Douglas. Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
The slides and notes, as well as the current dates are always avaialble in moodle: edu.gtk.bme.hu