A Workbook for Arguments

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA)
• Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition (hard copy)
• Chicago Manual of Style (online)
• Harvard "Bluebook"
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
• Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Ninth Edition)
• Charles Lipson's Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles—MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More (Third Edition)
• Gordon Harvey's Writing With Sources: A Guide for Students (3rd edition)

• P.D. Magnus' forall x, a free introductory textbook
• David Velleman's blogic, a free, interactive online textbook
• Stefan Waner & Steven R. Costenoble's Introduction to Logic, a free, somewhat interactive online textbook
• Garth Kemerling's web site on categorical, symbolic, and informal logic

• A series of videos on categorical logic
• Jason Campbell's series of videos on propositional deductive logic
• Another series of videos on propositional deductive logic

• The Fallacy Files
• Don Lindsay's list of fallacies
• An online "handout" on fallacies from the University of North Carolina, including a link to fallacy-ridden sample argument
• Textbooks on fallacies:
  • An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, 2nd ed., Ali Almossawi (New York: JasperCollins, 2014)
  • How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic, 2nd ed., Madsen Pirie (London: Bloomsbury, 2015)
  • Nonsense, Robert J. Gula (Mount Jackson, VA: Axios Press, 2002)
  • Fallacies and Argument Appraisal, Christopher W. Tindale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), an advanced survey of various fallacies

Resources related to promoting civil dialogue

• Find organization near you that promote in-person civil dialogue
• A video discussing free speech and civil dialogue online and on campus

Resources to improve your public speaking

• Six Minutes, a public speaking and presentation skills blog
• Toastmasters International, a network of clubs devoted to improving members' public speaking skills

Statistics-related resources

• Online resources
  • Introduction to Descriptive Statistics, a free, online introductory-level college course in statistics for describing data
  • Introduction to Inferential Statistics, a free, online introductory-level college course in statistics for making inferences from data
  • Watch videos about and practice using statistics from the Khan Academy
  • A statistics tutorial from StatTrek
  • Online Statistics: An Interactive Course of Study
  • The Glossary of Mathematicals Mistakes, which catalogues statistical and other mathematical errors
• Books
  • How to Lie with Statistics
  • Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking
  • How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

Classic texts for argument analysis

• Analyze the argument(s) in the following texts. Create a premise-and-conclusion outline and/or an argument map for each argument. For more on premise-and-conclusion outlines, see Chapter I of A Workbook for Arguments. For more on argument mapping, see Appendix III of A Workbook for Arguments.
• Americana
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" May 1851
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar 4, 1933
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Apr 16, 1963
  • George W. Bush, Address to the UN General Assembly [about the possibility of a war against Iraq], Sep 12, 2002
  • Additional primary sources from American history are available at Teaching American History
• Philosophical texts
  • Chapters II & III from: Anselm, Proslogion, translated, with Introduction, by Thomas Williams (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2001)
  • Meditations One & Two from: René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, 3rd ed., translated by Donald A. Cress (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993)
  • Chapters 13 & 14 from: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, edited, with Introduction, by Edwin Curley (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994)
  • First Section from: Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, 3rd ed., translated by James W. Ellington (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993)
  • Chapter IV from: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, edited by George Sher (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2002)

Web sites containing user-contributed answers to questions

• Yahoo! Answers
• Quora
• Mahalo Questions
• Answerbag

Web sites containing videos of oral arguments

• Note that some of the videos on these sites do not contain arguments. Watch videos on topics that interest you and ask yourself which of them contain arguments. If the speaker in a video isn't presenting an argument, ask yourself what he or she is trying to accomplish in the presentation.
• TED.com
• fora.tv
• bloggingheads.tv