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How it Works

Argumentation.io is a pedagogically effective, user-friendly, and accessible argument mapping app. Argument maps are diagrams representing arguments, or chains of reasoning. Studies have shown that college courses that incorporate argument mapping are exceptionally effective at improving students' critical thinking skills, open-mindedness, essay writing, and recall of course content. Argument mapping courses typically spend a few weeks focusing argument mapping and then map arguments from discipline-specific content. In addition to our app, we offer teaching materials to make it easier to incorporate argument mapping into college courses and to assign the Argumentation.io app to students.

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Adopt

Think Argumentation.io might be a good fit for your course? We've made it easy to assign to your students. Direct them to Argumentation.io, order it bundled with our textbook through your bookstore, or assign it through Perusall.com.

Teaching materials

Benefits

Argument mapping is unprecedentedly effective at improving student critical thinking, essay writing, open-mindedness, and recall of course content. Want to learn more?

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Why Argumentation?

Accessible

Argumentation.io is the only argument mapping app that's fully screen reader and keyboard compatible. We use a combination of automated and manual expert testing to ensure usability for people with disabilities and compliance with WCAG 2.1 success criteria.

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User-Friendly

Self-explanatory buttons, an uncluttered user-interface, and a thorough and searchable "How-To" document make Argumentation.io intuitive and user-friendly, helping instructors minimize student confusion and questions.

Easy to Adopt

We offer a variety of options to make it easy for students to subscribe to Argumentation.io and for instructors to assign it to them. In addition to subscriptions purchased directly through Argumentation.io, we offer subscription/book bundles that can be ordered through a university bookstore or Perusall. We also offer institutional subscriptions.

Inference Boxes

Argumentation.io is the only argument mapping app that gives arguments' inferences their own boxes. This makes it easier to teach and learn about inferences, inference rules, objections to inferences, and objections to inference rules. It also lets teachers refer to inferences in explanations of other concepts, like the distinction between co-premises and independent reasons.

PRICES

0 $

Free

Create Maps

How-To Documentation

Scratchpad

Start mapping

5 $

ONE-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION

Create maps

Searchable How-To Documentation

Save argument maps to Argumentation.io cloud

Share argument maps with weblinks

Generate and download images and PDFs of your maps

With Good Reason ebook download

How to Subscribe

25 $

SIX-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION

Create maps

Searchable How-To Documentation

Save argument maps to Argumentation.io cloud

Share argument maps with weblinks

Generate and download images and PDFs of your maps

With Good Reason ebook download

How to Subscribe

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INSTITUTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION

All of the following for students at the subscribing institution get:

Create maps

Searchable How-To Documentation

Save argument maps to Argumentation.io cloud

Share argument maps with weblinks

Generate and download images and PDFs of your maps

With Good Reason ebook download

FEATURES

Accessibilty

Argumentation.io is the only app that's screen reader and keyboard compatible. We've consulted with accessibility experts, followed accessible design best practices, and conducted both manual and automated accessibility tests.

Sharing

Easily share maps as unique links, images, or PDFs.

Scratchpad

Use the Scratchpad to edit and view text in paragraph format as you work on argument maps. This is ideal for mapping an argument originally presented in paragraph format.

Contact Us

We're happy to share our knowledge, experience, and course materials to help you incorporate argument mapping into and assign our app smoothly in your course. We're available for meetings to discuss these topics and more.