Example Bank

I teach Logic I (Critical Thinking), which relies heavily on analysis of arguments as reasoning mechanisms. I need examples (of statements, diagrams, arguments, and so forth) that are tagged with descriptive keywords firmly rooted in the instructor's head. This would be an associative array, not a matrix, as there are many possible tags, and most apply to only a few entries.

Example Bank Conceptual Structure

Type	Identifier	Example Text	Tags
Argument	Voting	You can't vote; you haven't registered.	enthymeme
Diagram	AllThingsP		single-category
Statement	ResidencyUnnecessary	Residency is not necessary to qualify for free care.	natural, truth-functional, necessary-sufficient
Argument	Uranium	Humans have antennae. Creatures with antennae eat uranium. ____ Humans eat uranium.	deductive, valid, unsound
Fallacy	Ugly	My justification for calling her ugly is that she's, well, kind of homely.	BeggingQuestion
Argument	Bailing	Ryan Ellis, the tax policy director for Americans for Democratic Reform, a conservative antitax group, said his group opposed efforts by the Bush administration to nudge banks and lenders into restructuring some loans, much less direct government loans to homeowners facing foreclosure. "You can call it community reinvestment, neighborhood protection, whatever you want," Mr. Ellis said, "but if you're taking away the downside risk of a loan, you're bailing them out."	natural, categorical, BARBARA
Argument	Herding	There are no cats that are easily herded. But some sheep are easily herded.	categorical
Statement	Prince	Someday my prince will come.	categorical, difficult-category-formulation
Argument	Kitchens	Some restaurant kitchens are sanitary. No home kitchens are sanitary.	categorical, requiring-more
Argument	Roses	Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet And so are you.	non-argument
Statement	S1	(~r --> (q & s)) & p & ((q v r) --> ((~r + ~s) v ~p)))	propositional, complex, contradiction
And...	So on...	Hundreds more

Example Bank in Action

I would use these in lecture notes (Resources), Discussions, homework (Assignments) and exams (Test and Quizzes), in editing scenarios with the Rich Text Editor:

RTEditor tool bar with new button:_ Insert Example
In Text Window, typing away: "State whether the following is an argument; if so, render it in standard form." (NOW selecting Insert Example, which (1) branches to a selection window allowing choice of Type, then (2) entry of tags, which generates a list indexed by Identifier, (3) selection of which inserts Example Text field.)

Note: Perhaps "Type" could be incorporated into tags.