In this lecture and discussion from his Fayetteville State University's Critical Thinking class, Dr. Sadler discusses what sort of structure sets of claims must have in order to be arguments. He distinguishes arguments from other non-argument sets of claims, including narratives and explanations. Portions of President Barack Obama's 2011 State of the Union speech are used to provide examples for the class.

1. Issues, Claims, Arguments
2. Arguments and non-Arguments
3. Value Judgements
4. Complex Arguments, Unstated Premises
5. Deductive and Inductive Arguments with Implicit Premises
6. Deductive and Inductive Arguments 1
7. Deductive and Inductive Arguments 2
8. Deductive and Inductive Arguments 3
9. Fallacies of Composition and Divison
10. Information Sources
11. Experts and Appeal to Authority
12. Critical Thinking and Advertising
13. Rhetorical Devices 1
14. Rhetorical Devices 2
15. Rhetorical Devices 3
16. Fallacies 1
17. Fallacies 2
18. Fallacies 3
19. Fallacies 4
20. Fallacies 5
21. Fallacies 6
22. Inductive Arguments 1
23. Inductive Arguments 2
24. Inductive Arguments 3

This is a series of 24 lectures from Dr. Sadler's Critical Thinking classes at Fayetteville State University, taught in Spring 2011. The textbook used was Moore And Parker's Critical Thinking 9th Ed.