A Rhetoric of Argument: Text and Reader

A Rhetoric of Argument: Text and Reader

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.