No matter where students' lives lead after graduation, one of the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyze, and respond to arguments. Students need to know how writers' and speakers' choices are shaped by elements of the rhetorical situation, including audience, occasion, and purpose.

No matter where students' lives lead after graduation, one the most essential tools we can teach them is how to comprehend, analyse, and respond to arguments. In Teaching Arguments, Jennifer Fletcher provides engaging classroom activities, writing prompts, graphic organisers, and student samples to help students at all levels read, write, listen, speak, and think rhetorically.