The Complexity Paper: A Writing Assignment that Targets Cognitive Bias

By James Southworth

Cognitive bias, especially confirmation bias and motivated reasoning, poses a significant challenge to argumentative writing genres, including the persuasive essay. To address this challenge, I introduce the complexity paper. Rather than attempting…

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