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A rhetoric of argument
A rhetoric of argument
Author: Jeanne Fahnestock
When it was first published in 1982, A Rhetoric of Argument developed a ground-breaking new approach to teaching argument. The stasis approach pioneered by Fahnestock and Secor distinguished among the four basic questions that arguments are written to answer:
  • What is it? (Definition arguments)
  • How did it ...  more »
  • Is it good or bad? (Evaluation arguments)
  • What should we do about it? (Proposal arguments)
These four questions, now standard in many argument texts, give students a constructive, engaging way to analyze readings by other writers and to construct their own arguments.
ISBN-13: 9780394324166
ISBN-10: 0394324161
Pages: 14
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Random House
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