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Critical & Creative Thinking Resources: Making an Argument

Understanding, for better or worse, starts with entertaining the idea that something is true. The brain tries to make thinking easier by creating heuristics, but sometimes these are inaccurate. Therefore you must be vigilant in evaluating any assumption.

Free OER Textbooks: Topic Argument

Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking

Learn about the tools speakers and writers use to entertain and motivate their audiences.  Watch out for the use of logical and emotional tactics that over-ride logic.

Inductive Argument

"An inductive argument can be affected by acquiring new premises (evidence), but a deductive argument cannot be. For example, this is a reasonably strong inductive argument: ... If the arguer believes that the truth of the premises definitely establishes the truth of the conclusion, then the argument is deductive."

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