First published in 1982, Fahnestock and Secor's A Rhetoric of Argument pioneered a focus on the four basic questions that arguments 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)

The third edition of this classic text has an even stronger emphasis on questioning as a way to analyze the arguments you hear and read and to construct effective arguments of your own.

<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif::::/sites/dl/free/0072938234/386115/firsttimeuser_top.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a>

Registration to this Web site is no longer required. All of the student resources contained on this site are freely accessible; you may disregard the registration instructions and the registration code printed on the card at the front of your textbook. Click on the Student Center link to the left to enter the site.

<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif::::/sites/dl/free/0072938234/386115/firsttimeuser_bottom.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a>