The Toulmin Project Home Page

This is the Toulmin Project Home Page. This page is designed to teach interested individuals about a theory of argumentation developed by Stephen Toulmin. Toulmin's theory is used in a variety of communiaction classes including our Fundamentals of Communication course, Public Speaking, Business and Professional Speaking, Communication Theory, Interpersonal Communication, and others. This theory is also used in some philosophy and english composition courses. The purpose of the web site is to introduce students to the theory so that they can use it to evaluate arguments or to construct their own. By clicking the buttons below, you can move through the web site.

This site was created by Charles Soukup and Scott Titsworth, Department of Communication Studies, at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. This page was created as part of a class project in Educational Psychology 942, Educational Technology. All material is copyrighted by the University of Nebraska. No portion of this may be used without the expressed written permission of the creators. This page was created on May 1, 1998.