Open Educational Resources and Chatbots

Open Educational Resources

• “Argumentation and Synthesis”

• “Rhetorical Analysis” (for WRIT 2325: Analyzing Rhetoric)

• “Undergraduate Legal Writing: an Open Resource” (for WRIT 3326: Legal Writing)

• Bad Ideas About Writing (co-edited with Cheryl E. Ball)

Chatbots

• Assumptions Inspector (help with understanding what an argument takes for granted [all arguments assume something])

  • Knowledge base is original content by Anna Mills, except for the descriptions of the red herring, slippery slope, and post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies, which Anna Mills adapted from the "Informal Logical Fallacies" chapter of Fundamental Methods of Logic by Matthew Knachel, UWM Digital Commons, licensed CC BY.

• Stasis Coach (help with understanding what is at issue and how it is argued)

• Counterargument Coach (help with counterarguments)

• Compass Statement Coach (help with research questions)

• Evaluating Research and Reports about Research (BoodleBox) (help with reading and evaluating research and media reports about research)