A Rhetoric of Argument: Brief Edition

A Rhetoric of Argument: Brief Edition

The <I>stasis approach</I> pioneered by Fahnestock and Secor distinguishes among four basic questions that arguments are written to answer: <br><br> What is it? (Definition arguments)<br> How did it get that way? (Causal arguments)<br> Is it good or bad? (Evaluation arguments)<br> What should we do about it? (Proposal arguments) <br><br> These four questions, now standard in many argument texts, give students a constructive, engaging way to analyze arguments by other writers and to construct their own arguments.