Monday, January 6, 2025

Handout CPE: Classroom Policies and Expectations

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What it means, ideally, to be a good student Your primary responsibility as a participant in higher education is to (strive to) be a good ...

Handout CR3: Creating a CRITO Outline

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CRITO (formed acronymically from the terms Conclusion, Reasons, Inference, Truth, and Objections) addresses both the principled reason asse...

Handout CR2: CRITO-Based Argumentative/Persuasive Essays

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Mechanics (form): Your essay — excluding footnotes, bibliography, and CRITO outline (see handout CR3 ) — should be minimally 2 (nonhonors...

Handout CR1: Brief Essay Desribing the CRITO Method

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"Critical Thinking and the Argumentative Essay" DKJ, 2001 National Critical Thinking Conference Atlanta, GA It has always be...

Handout M-SCRE: Multi-Stage Critical Research Essay

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What is a multi-stage critical research essay? A critical/persuasive/argumentative research essay defends in a thoroughly researched fashio...

Handout BR: Book Review

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Guidelines: Each student will read and review one full-length, single-author text of his/her choice. Texts must clearly relate to the disc...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Handout ST: STEP-I

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How to choose a “C” for a CRITO outline (see handout CR3 ) Step one in producing an argumentative essay – deciding exactly what ove...

Philosophy Toolkit

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(Co-authored by Matt Silliman, Dave Johnson, Gerol Petruzella, and Paul Nnodim.  Philosophy Program, MCLA, Third Edition, updated: 2022) ...

Writing Checklist

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Writing Checklist Good writers are multiply literate, able to choose appropriate styles for different purposes. These guidelines apply...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Spring, 2025 Syllabi (scroll down to desired syllabus)

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Logic & Critical Reasoning Spring 2025 MWF 10 & 11 (sections 01 & 02) Bowman 206 Professor:            Dr. David K. Braden-John...