Digitally deconstructing ‘straw man’ and ‘wicker man’ arguments: A software-aided pedagogy

This article models a software-based pedagogy, targetted at undergraduates, for assisting with detection and deconstruction of straw man arguments. The pedagogy is useful particularly where the student is unfamiliar with the standpoint attacked in the argument, where the text describing the st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kieran O’Halloran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOS Press 2018-11-01
Series:Argument & Computation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3233/AAC-180040