Critical Reasoning

Description

In this intensive writing course, students will learn how to critically evaluate persuasive writing as well as how to write well reasoned persuasive writing of their own. Students will study both formal and informal reasoning, apply what they learn to selections of writing drawn from popular and academic sources, critique the arguments in those sources, read and critique each other's writing, and develop their own abilities to give good reasons in writing for their own views. Credit will be awarded in critical reasoning.