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A rhetoric of argument

By Jeanne Fahnestock , Marie Secor , Richard L. Larson

Book information

Publisher
McGraw-Hill Companies
Year
1982
ISBN
9780075548263, 0075548267
Open Library ID
OL9971440M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (14066779 bytes)
Pages
398\398
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

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 get that way? (Causal arguments) 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.

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