Curtis Scott Jacobs, who usually publishes under the name Scott Jacobs', is an American argumentation, communication, and rhetorical scholar. His Ph. d. is from the University of Illinois, and he is Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona. This article is about the flagship campus For other uses and locations of University of Illinois, see University of Illinois (disambiguation The University of The University of Arizona (also referred to as UA, U of A, or Arizona) is a Land-grant and space-grant public institution

He has published in Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Journal of the American Forensic Association, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Argumentation. His seminal contribution ton the field of argumentation theory appears in: Sally Jackson and Scott Jacobs, "Structure of Conversational Argument: Pragmatic Bases for the Enthymeme. Argumentation theory, or argumentation, embraces the arts and sciences of civil debate Dialogue, conversation and persuasion studying rules of Inference " The Quarterly Journal of Speech. LXVI, 251-265.