{{Short description|American academic}} {{Infobox person | name = C. Scott Jacobs | birth_name = Curtis Scott Jacobs | occupation = Argumentation, communication, and rhetorical scholar | alma_mater = University of Illinois }} '''Curtis Scott Jacobs, (Scott Jacobs)''', is an American argumentation, communication, and rhetorical scholar.
He graduated from the University of Illinois with a PhD. He taught for many years at the University of Arizona. He is now professor of Communication at the University of Illinois.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.communication.illinois.edu/faculty/people/csjacobs/index.html |title=University of Illinois | COMMUNICATION | Department of Communication |access-date=2010-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100626205310/http://www.communication.illinois.edu/faculty/people/csjacobs/index.html |archive-date=2010-06-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has lectured in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. He has contributed to the field of argumentation theory.
His work appeared in ''Communication Monographs, Communication Theory,'' ''Journal of the American Forensic Association'', ''Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Argumentation.''
== Works == * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fIoCW2_RgWIC&q=%22Scott+Jacobs%22&pg=PA681| author=Sally Jackson and Scott Jacobs| chapter=Structure of Conversational Argument: Pragmatic Bases for the Enthymeme| title=Readings in argumentation|editor1=William L. Benoit |editor2=Dale Hample |editor3=Pamela J. Benoit| publisher=Walter de Gruyter| year= 1992| isbn= 978-3110135763 }} (appeared in ''The Quarterly Journal of Speech''. LXVI, 251–265.) * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=moNnQXT7J80C&q=%22Scott+Jacobs%22&pg=RA1-PA43| chapter=Digressions in Argumentative Discourse| title=Understanding face-to-face interaction: issues linking goals and discourse| author=Karen Tracy| editor=Karen Tracy| publisher=Routledge| year= 1991| isbn= 978-0805809077 }} * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t97fuAcjS-YC&q=%22Scott+Jacobs%22&pg=PA213| chapter=Language and Interpersonal Communication| title=Handbook of interpersonal communication|editor1=Mark L. Knapp |editor2=John Augustine Daly| publisher=Sage| year= 2002| isbn= 978-0761921608 }} * {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VvirJxSCkA4C&q=%22C.%20Scott%20Jacobs%22&pg=PA147| chapter=Two Conceptions of Openness in Argumentation Theory| title=Anyone who has a view: theoretical contributions to the study of argumentation|editor1=F. H. van Eemeren |editor2=J. Anthony Blair |editor3=Charles A. Willard| publisher=Springer| year= 2003| isbn= 978-1402014550 }}
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