Added/updated documentation for `Statement`

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diff --git a/docs/argument_processing.rst b/docs/argument_processing.rst
index 5aef3720..022ea4d6 100644
--- a/docs/argument_processing.rst
+++ b/docs/argument_processing.rst
@@ -296,7 +296,36 @@ Receiving an argument list
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 The default behavior of ``cmd2`` is to pass the user input directly to your
-``do_*`` methods as a string. If you don't want to use the full argument parser support outlined above, you can still have ``cmd2`` apply shell parsing rules to the user input and pass you a list of arguments instead of a string. Apply the ``@with_argument_list`` decorator to those methods that should receive an argument list instead of a string::
+``do_*`` methods as a string. The object passed to your method is actually a
+``Statement`` object, which has additional attributes that may be helpful,
+including ``arg_list`` and ``argv``::
+
+    class CmdLineApp(cmd2.Cmd):
+        """ Example cmd2 application. """
+
+        def do_say(self, statement):
+            # statement contains a string
+            self.poutput(statement)
+
+        def do_speak(self, statement):
+            # statement also has a list of arguments
+            # quoted arguments remain quoted
+            for arg in statement.arg_list:
+                self.poutput(arg)
+
+        def do_articulate(self, statement):
+            # statement.argv contains the command
+            # and the arguments, which have had quotes
+            # stripped
+            for arg in statement.argv:
+                self.poutput(arg)
+
+
+If you don't want to access the additional attributes on the string passed to
+you``do_*`` method you can still have ``cmd2`` apply shell parsing rules to the
+user input and pass you a list of arguments instead of a string. Apply the
+``@with_argument_list`` decorator to those methods that should receive an
+argument list instead of a string::
 
     from cmd2 import with_argument_list