[Coursera] Think Again: How to Reason and Argue (Week 1,2,3)

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课程汇总 && 介绍：http://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-81227-1-1.html

Week #1,2,3任务：

PART I: HOW TO ANALYZE ARGUMENTS

Week 1 (January 13 – 19): How to Spot an Argument
CONTENT: This week’s lectures will define what an argument is, distinguish various purposes for which arguments are given (including persuasion, justification, and explanation), and discuss the material out of which arguments are made (language). The last three lectures are optional honors lectures. READING: Understanding Arguments, Ninth Edition, Chapters 1-2

Week 2 (January 20 – 26): How to Untangle an Argument
CONTENT: This week’s lectures will focus on the special language in which arguments are formulated. We will investigate the functions of particular words, including premise and conclusion markers plus assuring, guarding, discounting, and evaluative terms. Identifying these words will enable students to separate arguments from the irrelevant verbiage that surrounds it and then to break the argument into parts and to identify what each part of an argument is doing. The lectures end with a detailed example that uses these tools to closely analyze an op-ed from a newspaper. READING: Understanding Arguments, Ninth Edition, Chapters 3-4

Week 3 (January 26 – February 2): How to Reconstruct an Argument
CONTENT: This week’s lectures will teach students how to organize the parts of an argument in order to show how they fit into a structure of reasoning. We work through the main steps of reconstruction, including putting the premises and conclusion into a standard form, clarifying the premises and breaking them into parts, arranging the argument into stages or sub-arguments, adding suppressed premises where needed to make the argument valid, and assessing the argument for soundness. The lectures begin by defining the crucial notions of validity, soundness, and standard form. Students also learn to diagram alternative argument structures, including linear, branching, and joint structures. READING: Understanding Arguments, Ninth Edition, Chapter 5

QUIZ #1: At the end of Week 3, students will take their first quiz.

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会有版主给大家加分，1学分（50大米）

这门课在上次开课时有跟，结果跟了前3周后来就安排不开了。。这次补上
逻辑、批判性思维训练到哪都有用

Quiz 1 done.

来交作业啦，话说第二个Quiz的帖子嘞~