Argumentation Schema and the Myside Bias in Written Argumentation

By Christopher R. Wolfe, A. Britt, J. Butler. 2009

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Investigating Instruction for Improving Revision of Argumentative Essays (2011, methodology): “Wolfe et al. (2009) had participants read 15 short arguments on a controversial proposal (whether we should ban cell phone usage while driving) and then write an argument using their available notes.”
Handbook of Epistemic Cognition (2016, background): “…may be due in part to failures to activate all constituent parts of an argument, namely the argument schema (Kurby, Britt, & Dandotkar, 2006; Wolfe et al., 2009); failures to accurately represent the arguments in memory, namely constructing a situation model; or, failures to retrieve the…”
Teaching and Learning Argumentative Reading and Writing: A Review of Research (2011, background): “Research on the influence of myside bias on writing quality found that college students who were more likely to apply schemata for recognition and rebuttal of supporting evidence generated higher quality essays and more favorable perceptions of the writer than did students who did not include opposi”
Argumentation Across the Curriculum (2011, background): “Following Wolfe et al. (2009), when a person composes or comprehends a written argument, she or he makes use of an argumentation schema, a learned, culturally derived set of expectations and questions about argumentative texts.”
Scientific Literacy: The Role of Goal-Directed Reading and Evaluation in Understanding Scientific Information (2014, background): “Many studies have shown that college students tend to have a “my side” bias in that they tend to generate more reasons in favor of a position they support than they do reasons on an opposing side (Perkins, 1985; Toplak & Stanovich, 2003), they tend to ignore other-side information when composing arg”
Parsing Argumentation Structures in Persuasive Essays (2016, methodology): “However, as demonstrated by Levy et al. (2014) and Goudas et al. (2014), the identiﬁcation of argument components is more complex in other text genres than it is in persuasive essays.”