Joseph W. Wenzel (November 30, 1933 - December 30 2021) was an American

argumentation Argumentation theory, or argumentation, is the interdisciplinary study of how conclusions can be supported or undermined by premises through logical reasoning. With historical origins in logic, dialectic, and rhetoric, argumentation theory, includ ...

and rhetorical scholar. He was Professor Emeritus at the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

. He has lectured in the Netherlands. He has published in ''Communication Monographs, Journal of the American Forensic Association, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Argumentation.'' His students include Dale Hample, Daniel J. O'Keefe, and

Charles Arthur Willard Charles Arthur Willard (born 1945) is an American argumentation and rhetorical theorist. He is a retired Professor and University Scholar at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Education He received his undergraduate degr ...

. His seminal contribution to argument theory appears in 1979: ‘Jurgen Habermas and the Dialectical Perspective on Argumentation’, ''Journal of the American Forensic Association'' 16, 83–94. He has published 30 articles and book chapters on topics in rhetoric and argumentation. He received awards for publications from the Midwest Forensic Association and the American Forensic Association. He has been a frequent presenter at conferences in America and abroad, including a keynote address at the First International Conference on Argumentation in Amsterdam in 1986. He was Editor of the Journal of the American Forensic Association, 1983–86, and has served on the editorial boards of ''Argumentation, Central States Speech Journal,

Communication Monographs ''Communication Monographs'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on human communication. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the National Communication Association The National Communication Ass ...

, Informal Logic and Quarterly Journal of Speech.''

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