Thread by @raulpacheco

Toulmin on argument: An interpretation and application buff.ly/34cg5Lk

I want to thank Professor @jenmercieca for suggesting this paper to help me teach the Stephen Toulmin model of argumentation. I also assigned the book, which is not easy to digest.

A lot of people think that teaching research methods does NOT include helping students learn how to write properly.

I do teach:
- proper citation practices
- writing analytically instead of descriptively
- engaging discursively with others' writing
- argumentation

On proper citation practices, writing analytically and engaging discursively, I use Graf and Birkenstein:

They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (my reading notes) raulpacheco.org/2017/05/they-s…

I also use this blog post of mine to teach about Description vs. Analysis. I grade Analysis, not Description.

Distinguishing between description and analysis in academic writing raulpacheco.org/2017/05/distin…

I also decided to include argumentation, which I could have done with Booth Colomb and Williams

The Craft of Research (Booth, Colomb, Williams) - 3rd Edition - my reading notes raulpacheco.org/2019/07/the-cr…

However, this semester I also tried to use other methods.

Which is why I also used Toulmin's model (whic Booth Colomb and Williams sort of borrow from).

Toulmin, S. (2003). The Uses of Argument. Cambridge New York Melbourne Madrid Cape Town Singapore Sao Paulo: Cambridge University Press.

cambridge.org/core/books/use…

I will add:

Toulmin, Booth/Colomb/Williams are complex, but worth teaching because that way you have left your students with life-long skills.

Instead of having your students face reviewers and editors who blame incoherent argumentation, you teach them from the get-go.