本课程旨在通过讲授英语论说文写作的一些基本理论，指导规范学生的英语议论文写作，通过理论结合实践的办法，巩固和提高学生用英语就讨论话题进行深度书面交流的能力。在教学过程中，本课程秉承写作即交际的指导原则，贯穿整个教学过程，通过教师讲授为主和师生互动为辅的形式来组织课堂教学，教师介绍理论，讲解写作的宏观环境，提高学生对英语论辩文写作的认识，使学生养成习惯从人际交往的角度出发，与读者平等沟通自身思想，学会用语言交际的眼光看待英语写作。在教学设计上，引入具有时效性的话题，引导学生讨论，融入写作理论，加深学生对理论的理解和掌握。在教学内容上，本课程主要涉及术语定义方法、命题类型以及与其相关的表述方法和支撑、推理模式等。本课程进一步拓展学生在段落、篇章等专项语言能力，使学生在已掌握的语言基础上，不断提高英语书面表达的准确性与鲜明性，锻炼学生的思辨能力、发现问题和解决问题能力，使学生能够准确得体地运用英语书面语言就讨论话题写出具有一定的深度，言之有物、观点正确、条理清楚的文章。
本课程总体设计以“教与学相结合”为原则，充分利用中国慕课联盟所提供的优秀教学资源（中国爱课程提供的由南开大学唐磊教学团队录制的《思辨式写作》课程https://www.icourse163.org/course/NANKAI-1003353002），采用学生自学线上相关课程章节和教师线下课程释疑、实践的混合教学模式。
学生需要完成
相关线上和线下课程章节学习
考核方式
1.过程考核（考勤10% + 作业60% + 课堂表现30%）
2.课终考核（考试、闭卷）
成绩评定办法
成绩构成：课终考核成绩×60% + 过程考核成绩×40%
英语水平达到大学英语四级水平或与之相当程度。
Lesson 1 Critical Thinking and Critical Writing
Section 1 What Is Critical Thinking (I)?
Section 2 What Is Critical Thinking (II)?
Section 3 What Is Critical Writing?
Section 4 What Is the Connection Between Critical Thinking and Critical Writing?
Section 5 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Word Choice
Write an essay of 200 words to explain why critical thinking is so important in modern world.
critical reading 1
Lesson 1 单元作业 Study reflection
Lesson 2 Understanding Arguments and Essay Structure
Section 1 What Is an Argument? (I)
Section 2 What Is an Argument? (II)
Section 3 What is the structure of critical essays? (An Overview)
Section 4 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Introduction Section)
Section 5 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Body Section)
Section 6 What is the structure of critical essays? (The Conclusion)
Section 7 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Effective use of verbs
Lesson 3 Writing Theses and Introductions
Section 1 What Is a Thesis?
Section 2 Types of Theses
Section 3 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （I）
Section 4 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （II）
Section 5 What Makes a Thesis Statement? （III）
Section 6 Writing Introductions (I)
Section 7 Writing Introductions (II)
Section 8 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Periodic vs loose sentences
Lesson 4 Reasoning and Paragraph Writing
Section 1 What Is Reasoning?
Section 2 All about Reasons
Section 3 Oh! Evidence (I)
Section 4 Oh! Evidence (II)
Section 5 Reasoning vs Explaining
Section 6 Going into Explanations
Section 7 Patterns of Reasoning
Section 8 Paragraph Writing—Unity
Section 9 Paragraph Writing—Reasoning
Section 10 Paragraph Writing—Coherence
Section 11 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Use concrete and specific language
Language workshop: Transitional words
Lesson 5 Applying Deductive Arguments to Writing
Section 1 Deductive Arguments
Section 2 Inductive Arguments
Section 3 Deductive Arguments vs Inductive Arguments
Section 4 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (I)
Section 5 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Principle (II)
Section 6 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (I)
Section 7 Deductive Arguments in Writing—Reason by Definition (II)
Section 8 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Parallel structure
Lesson 6 Applying Inductive Arguments to Writing
Section 1 Making Generalizations (I)
Section 2 Making Generalizations (II)
Section 3 Reasoning by Analogy (I)
Section 4 Reasoning by Analogy (II)
Section 5 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (I)
Section 6 Reasoning by Cause and Effect (II)
Section 7 Lesson Review—Employing Various Reasoning Techniques
Language workshop: Run-Ons and Commas
Lesson 7 Evaluating and Improving Arguments
Section 1 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Principle
Section 2 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Definition
Section 3 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (I)
Section 4 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (II)
Section 5 Evaluating and Improving Generalizations (III)
Section 6 Evaluating and Improving Arguments by Analogy
Section 7 Evaluating and Revising Causal Reasoning (I)
Section 8 Evaluating and Improving Causal Reasoning (II)
Section 9 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Redundancies in English Sentences
Lesson 8 Writing Counter-Arguments and Essay Conclusions
Section 5 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments（II）
Section 6 Writing Essay Conclusions
Section 7 Lesson Review
Language workshop: Capitalization and Punctuation
Section 1 What Is a Counter-Argument?
Section 2 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (I)
Section 3 Writing Counter-Arguments in Critical Essays (II)
Section 4 How to Rebut Conflicting Arguments（I）
Lesson 8 单元测验
Chaffee, John. Thinking Critically (Tenth Edition). Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012.
Dietsch, Betty Mattix. Reasoning and writing well (Third Edition). McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Donald, McQuade, and Robert Atwan. Thinking in writing (Fourth Edition). McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Facione, Peter, and Carol Ann Gittens. Thinking critically. Pearson, 2013.
Hammond, Eugene R. Critical thinking, thoughtful writing (Second Edition). McGraw-Hill, 2008.
John, Langan. 美国大学英语写作 (第六版). 外语教学与研究出版社, 2013.
Kanar, Carol C. The college writer (第5版). 北京大学出版社, 2011.
Richard, Paul, and Linda Elder. Critical thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life. Prentice Hall, 2011.
王一普, 简悦. 新大学英语思辨阅读. 高等教育出版社, 2017.
曲卫国 编著.《批判与论辩—论辩文写作入门》. 北京：高等教育出版社, 2013年出版。
Q : 这门课和普通的英文写作课有什么区别？
A : 传统写作课程注重写作中的形式方面，即篇章和语言技巧。这门课从写作中的内容方面入手，教给你如何思考，如何言之有物。同时也不忘关注形式方面的教学。双管齐下，效果更佳哦~
Q : 学习这门课要写很多英语文章才能得到证书吗？
A : No！这门课遵循写作过程，从第一课到第八课，带领大家逐步完成一篇文章写作和修改。整个课程从认识思辨能力和思辨写作，到了解论辩结构和文章结构，再到学写文章开篇语论点，再到学写论说段落，再到完成篇章写作，最终修改完善文章。