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Richard Fulkerson. Technical Logic, Comp-Logic, and the Teaching of Writing.

Fulkerson, Richard. "Technical Logic, Comp-Logic, and the Teaching of Writing." CCC 39.4 (1988): 436-452.

Abstract:

This article argues that the impetus to teach technical logic in composition is misguided and mishandled in composition textbooks and suggests a better way to teach students how to create effective arguments would be to instruct them in modern informal logic or classical stasis theory. The article shows how composition's treatment of logic, including instruction in induction, deduction, and fallacy theory, is incomplete and vague. The author goes on to critique the Toulmin model as the solution to teaching students how to structure an argument, but does point out that the model is useful as an invention heuristic. In his conclusion, the author endorses statis theory as a clear, systematic approach to teaching students how to write arguments.

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