Argumentative Writing Handouts and Guidelines

Over the years teaching argumentative writing classes for undergraduates at Berkeley and elsewhere I have accumulated a number of general guidelines, workshopping templates, peer-editing worksheets and so on, some of which I have presented in teaching seminars, or which have circulated informally in bits and pieces, some online, others as smudged samizdat. Occasionally (and weirdly often lately) I get requests for copies of this material from former students who have gone on to teach themselves or who think they might apply in different contexts (organizational mediation and facilitation, that sort of thing), or from colleagues who remember some presentation I delivered who knows when, or what have you. So, anyway, I am publishing some of the material I get requests for here, just so that they are readily available for anybody who asks me for them. Another, slightly longer piece is forthcoming, but I want to edit it a bit first, and since I'm off to teach it will have to wait, come to think of it. But, anyway, the last few posts have been different enough from the usual in tone and substance that I thought I should explain why I put them here. Perhaps some will interest you despite the change of pace, but come what may, I'll be back to the usual technodevelopmental social struggle, corporate-militarist critique, and centaur softcore you have come to expect soon enough.