This course on classical rhetoric teaches understanding and mastery of the art of giving reasons to explain your beliefs, instructs on the identification of key issues, strengths and weaknesses in arguments, and time tested techniques of rational persuasion.
Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning
Discover a common but under-studied aspect of human communication: argumentation.
Overview
About
Dr. David Zarefsky is the Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, where he has taught for over 30 years. He earned his B.S., master's degree, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. From 1988 through 2000, he served as the Dean of the School of Speech.
A nationally recognized authority on rhetoric and forensics, he is a past president of the National Communication Association (NCA) and recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award in 1994 and the Distinguished Service Award in 2001. On no fewer than 13 occasions, his outstanding lecturing skills have been recognized by the inclusion of his name on Northwestern's Associated Student Government Honor Roll for Teaching.
Dr. Zarefsky has authored five books, edited three more, and published over 50 scholarly articles and reviews. He received the 1986 National Communication Association's Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address for his book President Johnson's War on Poverty: Rhetoric and History and the same award again in 1991 for Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate.
01: Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric
Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric
33 min
02: History of Argumentation Studies
History of Argumentation Studies
31 min
03: Formal and Informal Argument
Formal and Informal Argument
31 min
04: The Emergence of Controversy
The Emergence of Controversy
31 min
05: Resolutions and Issues
Resolutions and Issues
31 min
06: Stasis—The Focal Point of Dispute
Stasis—The Focal Point of Dispute
31 min
07: Presumption and Burden of Proof
Presumption and Burden of Proof
31 min
08: Argument Analysis and Diagramming
Argument Analysis and Diagramming
31 min
09: Claims and Evidence
Claims and Evidence
31 min
10: Reasoning from Parts to Whole
Reasoning from Parts to Whole
31 min
11: Moving from Cause to Effect
Moving from Cause to Effect
31 min
12: Establishing Correlations
Establishing Correlations
31 min
13: Analogy, Narrative, and Form
Analogy, Narrative, and Form
31 min
14: What Makes a Sound Argument
What Makes a Sound Argument
31 min
15: Fallacies in Reasoning
Fallacies in Reasoning
31 min
16: Validity and Fallacies Reconsidered
Validity and Fallacies Reconsidered
31 min
17: Assembling a Case
Assembling a Case
31 min
18: Attack and Defense I
Attack and Defense I
31 min
19: Attack and Defense II
Attack and Defense II
31 min
20: Language and Style in Argumentation
Language and Style in Argumentation
31 min
21: Arguments between Friends
Arguments between Friends
31 min
22: Arguments among Experts
Arguments among Experts
31 min
23: Public Argument and Democratic Life
Public Argument and Democratic Life
31 min
24: The Ends of Argumentation
The Ends of Argumentation
31 min
