A Rhetoric of Argument Text and Reader Author:Jeanne Fahnestock, Marie Secor The stasis approach pioneered by Fahnestock and Secor distinguishes among four basic questions that arguments are written to answer: — What is it? (Definition arguments) — How did it get that way? (Causal arguments) — Is it good or bad? (Evaluation arguments) — What should we do about it? (Proposal arguments) — These four questions, now s... more »tandard in many argument texts, give students a constructive, engaging way to analyze arguments by other writers and to construct their own arguments.« less