This concise, student-friendly rhetoric provides clear, highly practical advice for writing arguments, including the four most common types: factual, causal, evaluation, and recommendation.

Structured around the three main phases of writing — focusing, supporting, and reviewing—For Argument's Sake helps students find and focus a claim, identify an audience, work through the support process, and then refine and polish their argument. Numerous sample arguments illustrate the principles and strategies, including several pieces written by students.