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Think Again How to
Reason and Argue
Thank you very much for signing up for Think Again: How to Reason and Argue.
Over the 12 weeks of the course, you will learn how to analyze and evaluate
arguments and how to avoid common mistakes in reasoning. These important skills
will be useful in deciding what to believe and what to do in all areas of your
life. We will also have lots of fun.
Each week will contain a series of short lectures along with exercises after each lecture and a quiz at the end of each of the four parts of the course. You should expect to spend on about 2 hours per week watching the lectures, another 2 hours per week doing the exercises, and about 1 hour on each quiz. The course website will also contain detailed information about discussion forums, and we will post notices as the course develops.
You will get more out of this course if you share the adventure, so we suggest that you encourage a few friends or family members to take the course with you. You can learn from each other if you discuss your own examples of arguments in areas that interest you. It will become easy for you to find stimulating and amusing examples of arguments in newspapers, television, advertisements, books, other courses, and elsewhere.
We also suggest that you obtain and read the recommended textbook: Understanding Arguments, Eighth Edition, by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Fogelin, available from Wadsworth/Cengage Publishers at http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/9780495603955. This textbook is not required in order to take the course, but it will probably be helpful to most of you.
We will be able to teach this course more effectively if we can get a better idea of who is taking it. To help us achieve this goal, please fill out a short survey at https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3dPbTc4Kn88W5iB. Thank you.
We will write you again when the first lectures and exercises become available on Monday, November 26. We are looking forward to it, and we hope you are, too.
Yours in Coursera,
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Each week will contain a series of short lectures along with exercises after each lecture and a quiz at the end of each of the four parts of the course. You should expect to spend on about 2 hours per week watching the lectures, another 2 hours per week doing the exercises, and about 1 hour on each quiz. The course website will also contain detailed information about discussion forums, and we will post notices as the course develops.
You will get more out of this course if you share the adventure, so we suggest that you encourage a few friends or family members to take the course with you. You can learn from each other if you discuss your own examples of arguments in areas that interest you. It will become easy for you to find stimulating and amusing examples of arguments in newspapers, television, advertisements, books, other courses, and elsewhere.
We also suggest that you obtain and read the recommended textbook: Understanding Arguments, Eighth Edition, by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Robert Fogelin, available from Wadsworth/Cengage Publishers at http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/isbn/9780495603955. This textbook is not required in order to take the course, but it will probably be helpful to most of you.
We will be able to teach this course more effectively if we can get a better idea of who is taking it. To help us achieve this goal, please fill out a short survey at https://duke.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3dPbTc4Kn88W5iB. Thank you.
We will write you again when the first lectures and exercises become available on Monday, November 26. We are looking forward to it, and we hope you are, too.
Yours in Coursera,
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University)
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)