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Week 1: Week of January 29, 2000

  1. Topics:

    2. Primary topics to be covered this week:

    1. Who's Who in Academic Discourse

    2. Advocacy and Argument

    3. Principles of Justice

    4. Terms of Art

    5. The 2000 Presidential Election and the US Supreme Court

  2. Readings:

    1. Basic Concepts:

      2. You are expected to be able to use these concepts in class discussions and in your academic discourse contributions.

      • what advocacy is, what argument is, categorization, unstated assumptions, one-sided and two-sided arguments, attitude and persuasion theory Online.
      • Bush v. Gore Online.

    2. Discussion Issues:

      3. You are expected to be able to competently discuss these issues.

    3. Praxis Readings:

      4. Broad choice of readings for your selection.

  3. Academic Discourse:

    • Up soon.

  4. Self-Report Quizzes:

    • Up soon.