The Art of Argument Program

About this curriculum

Please note: as part of your purchase you will get free access to the General Course Overview and Pacing available in My Library. Middle and high school students will argue (and sometimes quarrel), but they won’t argue well without good training. Students who complete   The Art of Argument   will learn how to reason with clarity, relevance, and purpose . . . and will have fun along the way! Informal logic is a foundational subject by which other subjects are evaluated, assessed, and learned. Therefore, students' study and mastery of the 28 logical fallacies will provide an essential lifetime framework for filtering good and bad reasoning as well as writing and speaking effectively. “My chief objection to a quarrel,” G.K. Chesterton wrote, “is that it ends a good argument.” Full program includes: The Art of Argument (consumable student edition)   This newly revised book teaches 28 informal fallacies, such as begging the question, the straw man, ad hominem, etc. Comprehensive instruction, clear explanations and illustrations, along with dialogues, worksheets, and dialectic discussion questions, make this text easy to follow and make the fallacies fun to learn…